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Headword:
*(omhri/dai
Adler number: omicron,248
Translated headword: Homeridai, Homeridae, Homerids
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Those who perform
Homer's poems. Others [sc. define the term as] a family in
Chios named after the poet. But others say that this opinion is erroneous, since they get their name from pledges [
homera]. For the women of
Chios once went mad during the festival of Dionysos, and fought a battle against their menfolk; they stopped [only] after they had exchanged as pledges bridegrooms and brides, whose descendants they call 'Homeridai'.
*(omhri/dai: oi( ta\ *(omh/rou u(pokrino/menoi. oi( de\ ge/nos e)n *xi/w| a)po\ tou= poihtou= w)nomasme/non: a)/lloi de/ fasin a(marta/nein tou\s ou(/tw nomi/zontas: w)noma/sqai ga\r a)po\ tw=n o(mh/rwn: e)pei\ ai( gunai=ke/s pote tw=n *xi/wn e)n *dionusi/ois parafronh/sasai ei)s ma/xhn h)=lqon toi=s a)ndra/si, kai\ do/ntes a)llh/lois o(/mhra numfi/ous kai\ nu/mfas e)pau/santo: w(=n tou\s a)pogo/nous *(omhri/das le/gousin.
Note:
An abridgement of Harpokration s.v., prompted by
Isocrates 10.65, and citing a variety of other writers, mainly historians (their names omitted here).
OCD(4) 700
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; gender and sexuality; geography; historiography; poetry; religion; women
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 13 December 2000@20:48:51.
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