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Headword:
*delfoi/
Adler number: delta,210
Translated headword: Delphi, Delphoi
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The sanctuary of Apollo. It was thus named because the serpent Delphyne was found there, the one which Apollo killed.[1] But [sc. it was also called] Pytho, because it rotted there.[2]
Also [sc. attested is] Delphis, [meaning] the Delphian [woman], the [priestess] of Apollo.
"For the Delphian voice prophesied thus, that I might become the monument and story of his bride."[3]
Greek Original:*delfoi/: to\ i(ero\n tou= *)apo/llwnos. ou(/tw de\ e)klh/qh dia\ to\ to\n *delfu/nhn dra/konta e)kei= eu(reqh=nai, o(\n a)pe/kteinen o( *)apo/llwn. *puqw\ de/, dia\ to\ e)kei= saph=nai. kai\ *delfi/s, h( *delfikh/, h( tou= *)apo/llwnos. *delfi\s ga\r fa/ma to/d' e)qe/spisen, o)/fra genoi/man ta=s kei/nou nu/mfas sh=ma kai\ i(stori/h.
Notes:
cf.
pi 3137,
pi 3138.
[1] See e.g. Apollonius of
Rhodes,
Argonautica 2.705-6.
[2] The verb
pu/qesqai (
pi 3138) means "to decay". For this material cf. the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 9.405, where the phrase 'in rocky Pytho' occurs.
[3]
Greek Anthology 7.154.5-6 (author unknown) on a statue of Vengeance atop the tomb of Coroebus; cf. Page (388-391) and another extract from this epigram at
kappa 1530. Apollo dispatched Vengeance to Argos [
Myth,
Place] (
alpha 3766) in retribution for the king's sheepdogs having killed his child, born by the Argive princess Psamathe. Vengeance then snatched babies from mothers in Argos until the Argive hero Coroebus killed her.
Pausanias 1.43.7-8 (web address 1) provides more background to the epigram's story and describes the tomb of Coroebus in the
agora at Megara (
mu 387). Scholars have debated whether the epigram here is indeed one of the elegies from the tomb; in
Pausanias's telling, there are
two statues on top--Coroebus killing Apollo's avenger--whereas in the epigram there is but Vengeance alone; see Page (388-390) for a summary of the scholarly controversy.
Reference:
D.L. Page, ed., Further Greek Epigrams, (Cambridge 1981)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: aetiology; children; epic; geography; mythology; poetry; religion; women; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 May 2002@18:58:23.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes; added keyword) on 9 May 2002@03:37:47.
David Whitehead (expanded n.2; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 2 December 2011@05:14:57.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, cross-reference) on 2 December 2011@19:15:09.
Catharine Roth (tweak) on 18 June 2012@12:30:33.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword, added link) on 15 July 2023@10:45:51.
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