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Headword:
*)argo/lai
Adler number: alpha,3781
Translated headword: argolai, snakes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A type of snakes, which the Macedonian Alexander brought from Pelasgian Argos [
Myth,
Place] to Alexandria and threw into the river for the destruction of the cobras, when he moved the bones of the prophet Jeremiah from Egypt to Alexandria; the prophet himself killed them. So "argolai" [means] "ill-omened [
laioi] out of Argos".
*)argo/lai: ei)=dos o)/fewn, ou(\s h)/negke *makedw\n *)ale/candros e)k tou= *)/argous tou= *pelasgikou= ei)s *)aleca/ndreian kai\ e)ne/balen ei)s to\n potamo\n pro\s a)nai/resin tw=n a)spi/dwn, o(/te mete/qhke ta\ o)sta= *(ieremi/ou tou= profh/tou e)c *ai)gu/ptou ei)s *)aleca/ndreian: ou(\s o( au)to\s profh/ths a)pe/kteinen. a)rgo/lai ou)=n e)k tou= *)/argous laioi/.
Note:
This strange and confusing (esp. "from Egypt to Alexandria") anecdote about Alexander the Great (d. 323 BCE) does not appear in the mainstream sources on him, but cf. De prophetarum vita et obitu (ed. T. Schermann) p.45, cf. 72.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; religion; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 July 2001@12:48:06.
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