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Headword:
*se/swstris
Adler number: sigma,268
Translated headword: Sesostris
Vetting Status: high
Translation: King of Egypt, who changed the customs of the Egyptians, wanting to make them humble; and he legislated that women should do men's work and men should do women's work.
See further under Sostres.[1]
Greek Original:*se/swstris, basileu\s *ai)gu/ptou, o(\s ta\ tw=n *ai)gupti/wn e)/qh mete/bale, qe/lwn au)tou\s tapeinw=sai: kai\ ta\ me\n tw=n a)ndrw=n e)/rga tai=s gunaici/, ta\ de\ tw=n gunaikw=n toi=s a)ndra/sin e)nomoqe/thsen e)rga/zesqai. zh/tei e)n tw=| *sw/strhs platu/teron.
Notes:
For this man see already
sigma 266. (The present version of his name is preferable.)
For this entry's material on him Adler compares 'Nymphiodorus' (in fact
Nymphodorus, of
Amphipolis) fr.21 FHG (2.380), from a scholion on the phrase 'the laws in Egypt' in
Sophocles,
Oedipus at Colonus 337.
[1]
sigma 867 (spelled Sostris); see the note there. See also under
kappa 2355,
pi 671.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 December 2004@19:28:39.
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