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Headword:
*)arrhfori/a
Adler number: alpha,3863
Translated headword: arrêphoria
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A sacrifice [of that name].
If [it is written] with an alpha, [it is] a)rrhfori/a ["carrying of things that cannot be named"], since the maidens used to carry in boxes things that cannot be named [arrêta] for the goddess;[1] but if with an epsilon, [then it is] e(rsefori/a ["carrying of Herse"]; for they used to hold a procession for Herse, the daughter of Kekrops.[2]
Also [sc. attested is] a)rrhfo/roio ["of a maiden performing the arrêphoria"].[3]
Also [sc. attested is] a)rrhfo/roi, [meaning the women] who carry the unnamable mysteries. "a)rrhfo/roi and all-hallowed women [panagei=s gunai=kes]."[4]
Greek Original:*)arrhfori/a: qusi/a. ei) me\n dia\ tou= a)/lfa a)rrhfori/a, e)peidh\ ta\ a)/rrhta e)n ki/stais e)/feron th=| qew=| ai( parqe/noi: ei) de\ dia\ tou= e e(rsefori/a: th=| ga\r *(/ersh| e)po/mpeuon th=| *ke/kropos qugatri/. kai\ *)arrhfo/roio. kai\ *)arrhfo/roi, ai( ta\ a)/rrhta fe/rousai musth/ria. a)rrhfo/roi kai\ panagei=s gunai=kes.
Notes:
cf. generally
alpha 3860,
alpha 3861.
[1] Athena.
[2] (And goddess of the dew.) From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 642. In this passage the verb
a)rrhfore/w occurs in the imperfect
h)rrhfo/roun, where the initial eta could be the augmented form of either alpha or epsilon (see web address 1) -- hence the issue discussed here; cf.
epsilon 3081, and e.g. Herodian 2.479.3.
[3] Epic/poetic genitive, evidently quoted from somewhere.
[4]
Aelian fr. 307 Domingo-Forasté (310 Hercher); more fully at
pi 150.
H.W. Parke, Festivals of the Athenians (London 1977) 141-3
Noel Robertson, "The Riddle of the Arrhephoria at Athens," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 87 (1983) 241-288
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: aetiology; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; religion; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 21 November 2001@09:47:28.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes; added bibliography; cosmetics) on 21 November 2001@10:32:34.
Catharine Roth (augmented note, added link) on 23 April 2008@15:27:38.
Catharine Roth (added bibliography) on 20 May 2008@16:02:06.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; betacoding and other cosmetics) on 21 May 2008@03:30:39.
Catharine Roth (updated reference, upgraded link) on 21 June 2011@21:54:18.
David Whitehead (x-refs; another keyword; cosmetics) on 11 April 2012@09:42:57.
David Whitehead on 31 August 2015@04:19:34.
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