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Headword:
*)/apides
Adler number: alpha,3201
Translated headword: Apides
Vetting Status: high
Translation: They were gods honored amongst Egyptians, having a sign around the tail and the tongue, indicating that they are Apides. These are begotten from time to time, as they used to say, from the shining of the moon. For them they would celebrate a great festival and certain priests perform the ritual around the ox that is born, presenting a complete banquet to feed them sumptuously.[1]
*)/Apis: this Apis [is] an Egyptian god. Egyptians honor him with a moon, and this ox was sacred of [= to] the moon, just as
Memphis [is] of the sun.[2]
Okhos having killed Apis wanted to hand him over to the butchers, so that they might cut him up for meat and prepare him for dinner.[3]
*)/apides: qeoi\ h)=san timw/menoi para\ *ai)gupti/ois, shmei=on e)/xontes peri\ th\n ou)ra\n kai\ th\n glw=ssan, dhlou=n ei)=nai au)tou\s *)/apidas. oi(=s gennwme/nois dia\ xro/nou, w(s e)/legon, e)k tou= se/laos th=s selh/nhs e(orth\n mega/lhn h)=gon kai\ i(erei=s tines peri\ to\n texqe/nta bou=n i(erw=nto, paratiqe/ntes pandaisi/an, w(s eu)wxou=ntes au)tou/s. *)/apis: ou(=tos o( *)/apis qeo\s *ai)gu/ptios. tou=ton *ai)gu/ptioi selh/nh| timw=si, kai\ i(ero\s h)=n o(/de o( bou=s th=s selh/nhs, w(/sper o( *me/mfis tou= h(li/ou. *)=wxos to\n *)/apin a)poktei/nas e)bou/leto au)to\n toi=s magei/rois parabalei=n, i(/na au)to\n kreourgh/swsi kai\ paraskeua/swsin e)pi\ dei=pnon.
Notes:
The headword is the nominative plural of Apis; it has presumably been generated by the accusative plural at the end of the first sentence of the gloss.
cf.
alpha 3217.
Herodotus (3.27ff.: see web address 1) tells how Cambyses killed an Apis-bull.
[1] Compare
Nonnus' commentary on stories mentioned by Gregory of Nazianzus in his
Invective against Julian (PG 36.1052c); also George the Monk,
Chronicon 64.19ff.
[2] Again at
mu 583.
[3]
Aelian fr. 40a Domingo-Forasté; again at
omega 284, and see also
kappa 181. (This is the Persian King Artaxerxes (III) Okhos, who reconquered Egypt in 343 BCE and punished the Egyptians in this way, amongst others.)
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; geography; historiography; history; mythology; religion; rhetoric; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 December 2000@20:44:02.
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