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Headword:
*)ape/fqou
xrusi/ou
Adler number: alpha,3097
Translated headword: of refined gold
Vetting Status: high
Translation: That is, melted down many times, so as to become pure.[1]
"Refined in gold like the Pataikoi."[2]
Greek Original:*)ape/fqou xrusi/ou: toute/sti tou= polla/kis e(yhqe/ntos, w(/ste gene/sqai o)/bruzon. xrusi/ais a)/pefqa toi=s *pataikoi=s e)mferh=.
Notes:
[1] The headword phrase, in the genitive singular, quotes
Thucydides 2.13.5 (web address 1 below) and this is the gloss of the
scholia there; cf.
omicron 15.
[2]
Comica adespota fr. 423 Kock, now 918 K.-A. Pataikoi (
pi 781) were likenesses of the dwarfish Phoenician divinity -- whom the Greeks called "Pataikos" -- which were used as figureheads for their ships (
Herodotus 3.37.2). Pataikos is perhaps comparable to Ptah of the Egyptians, whom the Greeks identified with Hephaestus.
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 29 January 2001@00:42:57.
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