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Headword:
*bohdromi/a
Adler number: beta,357
Translated headword: Boedromia
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [The verb]
bohdromei=n ["to run to help"] was the name for helping,[1] that is running into battle. But the Boedromia is a certain festival of this name at
Athens, to mark the day when the son of Xouthos[2] had provided such enthusiastic help to [the] Athenians when they were at war with Eumolpos the son of Poseidon. Erechtheus was king of
Athens at the time.
*bohdromi/a: bohdromei=n me\n to\ bohqei=n w)noma/zeto, toute/stin e)pi\ ma/xhn dramei=n. e)/sti de\ h( *bohdromi/a e(orth/ tis *)aqh/nhsi kaloume/nh, kaq' h(\n h(me/ran e)boh/qhsen o( *cou/qou spoudh=| pollh=| polemoume/nois *)aqhnai/ois u(po\ *eu)mo/lpou tou= *poseidw=nos. *)erexqeu\s de\ to/te *)aqhnai/wn e)basi/leuen.
Notes:
From Harpokration s.v., commenting on the headword's appearance in
Demosthenes 3.31 (and citing
Philochorus FGrH 328 F13).
[1] cf. already
beta 356.
[2] His name has fallen out of the text here:
Ion. Xouthos is mentioned at
xi 82.
OCD(4) s.v. (p.236)
Keywords: aetiology; chronology; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; military affairs; mythology; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 October 2000@03:57:13.
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