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Headword: Amphidromia
Adler number: alpha,1722
Translated headword: Amphidromia
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
They hold this [ceremony] for new-born babies on their fifth [day], in which the women who came together for the delivery cleanse their hands; they run round the hearth carrying the child and the relatives send presents, for the most part octopuses and cuttle-fish. The name is given [to the child] on the tenth [day].
Greek Original:
Amphidromia: tên pemptên agousin epi tois brephesin, en hêi apokathairontai tas cheiras hai sunapsamenai tês maiôseôs: to de brephos peripherousi tên hestian trechontes, kai dôra pempousin hoi prosêkontes, hôs epi to pleiston polupodas kai sêpias. têi dekatêi tounoma tithentai.
Notes:
From the scholia to Plato, Theaetetus 160E, where the headword occurs. See also Harpokration s.v.
For the tenth see delta 186.
Reference:
Robert Garland, The Greek Way of Life (London 1990) 93-95 with 313
Keywords: children; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; philosophy; religion; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 August 2000@12:09:59.
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