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Headword:
Danaê
Adler number: delta,57
Translated headword: Danaë
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name.
The [daughter] of Acrisius. "Go be judged: you are not Danaë the [daughter] of Acrisius."[1]
For when she was responding stubbornly to a lawsuit, a certain wiseguy said to her: "Go be judged: you are not Danaë the daughter of Acrisius. "And this mastered the mind of Danaë"; that is, gold.[2]
The
danikon is in currency at great
Antioch of
Syria; they use it for small transactions.[3]
Danaê: onoma kurion. hê Akrisiou. krithêti kai su: ouk ei Danaê hê Akrisiou. tautês gar duspeithôs pros tina dikên apantôsês, sophos tis pros autên apephthenxato: krithêti kai su: ouk ei Danaê hê Akrisiou thugatêr. kai Danaês elugôsen hode phrena. toutestin ho chrusos. epichôriazei têi megalêi Antiocheiai tês Surias to danikon, hôiper chrôntai eis mikras pragmateias.
Notes:
[1] Lucian,
Demonax 47. The joke is that
Akrisios can literally mean "man with bad judgment" or "man who is unjudged"; from
alpha 984.
[2]
Greek Anthology 5.217.7 (Paul the Silentiary), quoted from
epsilon 919. The allusion is to Zeus visiting Danae (and fathering Perseus) as a shower of gold. Find further extracts from this epigram at
alpha 1510,
kappa 454,
kappa 2075, and
rho 317.
[3] Source unidentifiable. (Adler suggests Symeon Metaphrastes.) The term
danikon, found only here (and unrelated to the rest of the entry), is evidently a variant of
delta 59.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 20 July 2002@14:17:27.
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