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Headword: *fillei=dai
Adler number: phi,319
Translated headword: Philleidai, Philleids
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
It is a clan [genos] at Athens. Out of its members [comes] the priestess of Demeter and Kore, she who initiates the initiates at Eleusis.
Greek Original:
*fillei=dai: ge/nos e)sti\n *)aqh/nhsin: e)k de\ tou/twn h( i(e/reia th=s *dh/mhtros kai\ *ko/rhs, h( mu/ousa tou\s mu/stas e)n *)eleusi=ni.
Notes:
= Photius phi179 Theodoridis (from the Epitome of Harpokration); cf. Etymologicum Magnum 793.45 (opening phrase only).
Kevin Clinton, The Sacred Officials of the Eleusinian Mysteries (Philadelphia 1972) 76; Robert Parker, Athenian Religion (Oxford 1996) 317.
Keywords: definition; geography; religion; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 16 November 2001@07:57:25.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead on 6 September 2002@11:49:56.
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added italics; cosmetics) on 12 December 2003@11:51:31.
David Whitehead (augmented notes) on 13 July 2011@10:40:53.
David Whitehead on 9 December 2013@05:03:35.
David Whitehead on 31 May 2016@03:35:04.

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