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Headword:
*pro\s
th=|
puli/di
*(ermh=s
Adler number: pi,2815
Translated headword: Hermes by the little gate
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Demosthenes in the [speech]
Against Euergos [sc. uses the phrase].[1]
Philochorus says, concerning Hermes by the little gate, that when [the Athenians] had begun to fortify the
Peiraieus the nine archons dedicated this and had it inscribed as follows: "when they had first [begun] to fortify, these men dedicated [this], in obedience to decisions of the council and the people".[2]
Greek Original:*pro\s th=| puli/di *(ermh=s: *dhmosqe/nhs e)n tw=| kat' *eu)e/rgou. *filo/xoro/s fhsi peri\ tou= pro\s th=| puli/di *(ermou=, w(s a)rca/menoi teixi/zein to\n *peiraia= oi( q# a)/rxontes, tou=ton a)naqe/ntes u(pe/grayan ou(/tws: prw=toi teixi/zein oi(/d' a)ne/qhkan, boulh=s kai\ dh/mou do/gmasi peiqo/menoi.
Notes:
From Harpokration (and
Photius) s.v.
[1]
Demosthenes 47.26 (web address 1).
[2]
Philochorus FGrH 328 F40, the dedication of a Herm near the City Gate to the Piraeus; cf. Page (406-407).
Robert Garland, The Piraeus (London 1987) 166 with 223
D.L. Page, ed., Further Greek Epigrams, (Cambridge 1981)
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: architecture; constitution; historiography; history; military affairs; religion; rhetoric; science and technology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 December 2000@06:17:26.
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