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Headword:
*(/elenos
Adler number: epsilon,790
Translated headword: Helenos, Helenus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [The man] who wrote down [sc. the principles of] divination based on palmistry, as when we say from the folds of the stretched-out palm of the hands, [someone] will beget a child or anything like that.
Greek Original:*(/elenos: o(\s sune/graye to\ xeiroskopiko\n oi)w/nisma, w(s o(/tan th=s e)kta/sews tw=n xeirw=n th=s pala/mhs a)po\ tw=n r(uti/dwn ei)/pwmen, paidopoiei= h)/ ti toiou=ton.
Notes:
(Same entry in ps.-
Zonaras.) From ps.-
Nonnus,
Scholia mythologica 4.72.16-18; again at
chi 258.
Earlier ps.-
Nonnus had attributed the discovery of augury or divination
per se to 'Phrygians' (
omicroniota 163), so it is a pleasing coincidence that this Helenus bears (or took?) the name of Cassandra's twin brother, himself a renowned prophet in
Homer and elsewhere (see OCD(4) s.v.).
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 March 2006@22:29:21.
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