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Headword: *)afh/toros
Adler number: alpha,4608
Translated headword: Aphetor, Speaker, Shooter
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Not a more general [epithet], but [that] of the Pythian god,[1] as if [to say] "together-speaker", because of the way he enters into communication with those who pronounce the oracles.
Greek Original:
*)afh/toros: ou) koino/teron, a)lla\ tou= *puqi/ou, oi(=on o(mofh/toros, dia\ to\ oi(=on ei)s lo/gous e)/rxesqai toi=s xrhsmw|doume/nois.
Notes:
From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 9.404, where the headword occurs (in the genitive case, as again here).
[1] Apollo.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; mythology; religion
Translated by: William Hutton on 22 November 2000@00:53:38.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 13 June 2001@08:39:47.
David Whitehead on 7 May 2012@06:22:00.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 11 September 2015@06:24:58.

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