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Headword:
*gumnopaidei/a
Adler number: gamma,486
Translated headword: Gymnopaideia
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the wrestling-ground.[1]
By means of it Lykourgos used to discipline the young men.[2]
Also [sc. attested are]
gumnopai/dia,[3] [meaning] choruses of children in
Sparta in Lakonike,[4] singing hymns to [the] gods in honour of the Spartiates who died at Thyraiai.[5]
And
Josephus [writes]: "and no place in the city was naked, but all had bodies dead either from famine or from civil war".[6]
*gumnopaidei/a: h( palai/stra. h(=| tou\s e)fh/bous *lukou=rgos h)na/gkaze. kai\ *gumnopai/dia, xoroi\ e)k pai/dwn e)n *spa/rth| th=s *lakwnikh=s ei)s qeou\s u(/mnous a)/|dontes, ei)s timh\n tw=n e)n *quraiai=s a)poqano/ntwn *spartiatw=n. kai\ *)iw/shpos: to/pos d' e)pi\ th=s po/lews ou)dei\s gumno\s h)=n, a)lla\ pa=s limou= nekro\n ei)=xen h)\ sta/sews.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon. See further below, n. 5.
[2] From
lambda 824, q.v.
[3] Differently accented as well as spelled; and plural (but should be feminine rather than this neuter).
[4] The usual name for Spartan territory, conventionally (but anachronistically) translated as 'Laconia'.
[5] Likewise in the
Lexicon Sabbaiticum. 'Thyraiai' = Thyrea(i) in NE Laconia, the location of the Battle of Champions in c.546 BCE (
Herodotos 1.82); cf. Barrington Atlas map 58 grid D3. The entry's initial definition of Gymnopaideia (feminine singular) as a wrestling-ground may be a misunderstanding of this added material: the Gymnopaidia(i) (neuter or feminine plural) are usually taken to be a festival of the Spartan city-state, cf. scholiast to
Thucydides 5.82.2; also
Pausanias 3.11.9 (Gymnopaidia, festival where the young men perform choruses for Apollo).
[6]
Josephus,
Jewish War 6.369 (web address 1).
Web address 1
Keywords: athletics; biography; children; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; geography; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs; religion
Translated by: D. Graham J. Shipley on 6 January 2001@04:19:00.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (Added reference, link, keywords.) on 7 January 2001@02:15:32.
David Whitehead (added note; cosmetics; raised status) on 23 January 2001@05:47:43.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 6 October 2005@09:04:46.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 12 June 2012@04:04:59.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 20 October 2012@01:20:43.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 22 August 2013@22:18:19.
David Whitehead (augmented n.5; coding and other cosmetics) on 30 September 2015@03:39:23.
Ronald Allen (added map reference n.5) on 28 June 2023@17:57:01.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, tweaked link) on 29 June 2023@00:51:44.
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