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Headword:
*)axai/a
Adler number: alpha,4679
Translated headword: Achaia, Achaea
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Demeter.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "he would not even have accepted Achaia".[2] They used to call her this from the beat made by the cymbals and drums during the examination of the girl; or from her distress [
a)/xos] about her daughter; or from the sound [
h)=xos] which they used to produce near the bridge as she departed for
Athens. The sense, however, [is that] he would not even have endured Achaia herself.
*)axai/a: h( *dhmh/thr. *)aristofa/nhs: ou)d' a)\n th\n *)axai/an katede/cato. ou(/tw de\ au)th\n e)ka/loun a)po\ tou= ktu/pou tw=n kumba/lwn kai\ tumpa/nwn tou= genome/nou kata\ th\n zh/thsin th=s ko/rhs: h)\ a)po\ tou= peri\ th\n qugate/ra a)/xous: h)\ a)po\ tou= h)/xou, o(\n parei=xon e)n toi=s peri\ th\n ge/furan ei)s *)aqh/nas a)piou=san. o( de\ nou=s, ou)k h)ne/sxeto a)\n ou)de\ th\n *)axai/an au)th/n.
Notes:
[1] An epithet of Demeter in
Athens and elsewhere: besides what follows here, see LSJ s.v.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 709 (web address 1), with attempts at explanatory comment from the
scholia there. For the 'bridge' in question here, see under
gamma 212.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; meter and music; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 December 2003@12:48:11.
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