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Headword:
*pro/noia
*)aqhna=
Adler number: pi,2535
Translated headword: Athena Pronoia, Athena ?Pronaia
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Some [sc. say that her statue was so-called] because it stood before [
pro] the temple [
naos] at
Delphi; others because she foresaw that Leto would give birth.[1]
[Note] that God's
pronoia ["providence"] works in three ways: by his dispensation, by his good will, by his condescension.[2]
*pro/noia *)aqhna=: oi( me\n dia\ to\ pro\ tou= naou= tou= e)n *delfoi=s e(sta/nai au)th/n, oi( de\ o(/ti prou)no/hsen, o(/pws te/kh| h( *lhtw/. o(/ti h( tou= qeou= pro/noia kata\ trei=s tro/pous gi/netai: kat' oi)konomi/an, kat' eu)doki/an, kata\ sugxw/rhsin.
Notes:
The first and principal part of this entry is also in
Photius,
Lexicon pi1268 (and similarly elsewhere), where Theodoridis has references on the Pronoia/Pronaia discrepancy; see also
pi 2534.
For Athena Pronoia ('Athena of Foresight') see generally LSJ s.v.
pronoia, III.
[1] For Leto, mother of Apollo and Artemis, see
lambda 477.
[2] cf.
gamma 271,
omicroniota 71.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 15 July 2002@00:41:26.
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