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Headword:
*)arguro/peza
Adler number: alpha,3797
Translated headword: silver-footed
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] she who has silver feet.[1] For pe/za [is] the foot.[2]
Also[3] [sc. attested is the phrase] 'silver-footed throne'. But the throne of Xerxes, which is also called prisoner-of-war, was dedicated in the Parthenon of Athena.[4]
Greek Original:*)arguro/peza: h( a)rgurou=s po/das e)/xousa. pe/za ga\r o( pou=s. kai\ *)arguro/poda di/fron. o( *ce/rcou de\ di/fros, o(\s ai)xma/lwtos e)pekalei=to, a)ne/keito d' ei)s to\n *parqenw=na th=s *)aqhna=s.
Notes:
[1] See generally LSJ s.v. (web address 1). Amongst the goddesses called this are Aphrodite and Artemis.
[2] This sentence is from the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 1.538 (web address 2), where the epithet is applied to Thetis; cf.
pi 909.
[3] The source now becomes Harpokration s.v.
a)rguro/pous di/fros, who also reports that this was the throne on which Xerxes sat as he watched the sea-battle (sc. of
Salamis); cf.
Herodotus 8.90 (web address 3).
[4] See e.g.
Demosthenes 24.129 (web address 4).
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 October 2000@03:06:16.
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