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Headword: *)anepo/pteuton
Adler number: alpha,2303
Translated headword: not-fully-initiated
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The [term that means] not being admitted to the grade of epoptes [in the Eleusinian Mysteries]; so Hyperides [sc. uses the word].[1] What admission to the grade of epoptes means, Philochorus shows when he says: "he is wronging all the mystic things and all the epoptic things". And elsewhere: "so for Demetrius something special and unique happened: becoming a semi-initiate [mystes] at the same time as a full-initiate [epoptes] and side-stepping the traditional times of the rite".[2]
Greek Original:
*)anepo/pteuton: to\ mh\ e)popteu=on: ou(/tws *(uperi/dhs. to\ de\ *)epopteu=sai dhloi= *filo/xoros le/gwn: a)dikei= pa/nta ta/ te mustika\ kai\ ta\ e)poptika/. kai\ pa/lin: *dhmhtri/w| me\n ou)=n i)/dio/n ti ge/gone para\ tou\s a)/llous, to\ mo/non muhqh=nai/ te a(/ma kai\ e)popteu=sai kai\ tou\s patri/ous xro/nous th=s teleth=s metakinhqh=nai.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., where the headword is nominative case, not the Suda's accusative.
[1] Hyperides fr. 174 Jensen (from the lost speech Against Phryne).
[2] Philochorus FGrH 328 F69b and 70b. The 'Demetrius' in question is the early-Hellenistic king Demetrius Poliorcetes, for whom the usual rules were waived, so making possible his initiation to all the degrees on the same day (and without the normal preparations).
Reference:
G.E. Mylonas, Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries (Princeton 1961)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 5 October 2000@08:10:24.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 6 August 2002@04:37:03.
William Hutton (Cosmetics) on 21 October 2002@21:32:48.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 27 June 2011@10:24:48.
David Whitehead (typo) on 4 March 2012@09:32:51.
David Whitehead on 15 July 2015@02:59:41.

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