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Headword:
*palladi/wn
xrusoume/nwn
Adler number: pi,36
Translated headword: Palladia being gilded
Vetting Status: high
Translation: On the prows of their triremes the Athenians used to set up certain wooden images to Athena, which they would attend to when about to set sail.
Greek Original:*palladi/wn xrusoume/nwn: e)n tai=s prw/rais tw=n trih/rwn oi( *)aqhnai=oi a)ga/lmata/ tina cu/lina th=| *)aqhna=| kaqi/druon, w(=n e)pemelou=nto me/llontes plei=n.
Note:
The headword phrase, in the genitive case, comes from
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 547 (web address 1), where it is part of the description of a war-fleet being prepared. Comment from the
scholia follows.
L. Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore & London 1995) 346 n.8
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 9 October 2001@02:58:33.
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