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Headword:
*)afidru/mata
Adler number: alpha,4611
Translated headword: images
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the statues of the gods.[1]
"Thus straightaway the eldest men started bringing a branch of supplication [and] the most ancient of the images in the city".[2]
Greek Original:*)afidru/mata: ta\ tw=n qew=n a)ga/lmata. eu)qu\s ou)=n i(kethri/an e)ko/mizon oi( presbu/tatoi ta\ palaio/tata tw=n kata\ po/lin a)fidruma/twn.
Notes:
[1] Similarly in other lexica. The headword, a neuter nominative/accusative plural, is presumably quoted from somewhere;
Diodorus (see next note) has three instances.
[2]
Diodorus Siculus 33.5.2, abridged (just this side of intelligibility), using the genitive plural. The city in question is Marathos, on the coast of
Syria.
Translated by: William Hutton on 23 November 2000@05:16:45.
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