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Headword:
*bou/ths
Adler number: beta,467
Translated headword: Boutes, Butes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This man held the priesthood, and those [sc. descended] from him were [sc. initially] called Boutadai. But [sc. now] the descendants of Boutes are called Eteoboutadai ["Real-Boutadai"]; for e)teo/n indicates "true".
Greek Original:*bou/ths: ou(=tos th\n i(erwsu/nhn e)/sxe, kai\ oi( a)p' au)tou= *bouta/dai e)klh/qhsan. kalou=ntai de\ *)eteobouta/dai oi( a)po/gonoi tou= *bou/tou: to\ ga\r e)teo\n a)lhqe\s dhloi=.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., where
Homer (
Odyssey 8.529) is quoted for the final, etymological point.
This modification in the name dates from the late C6 BCE, when the reforms of Kleisthenes in
Athens appropriated the name Boutadai (see
beta 466, and cf.
epsilon 3283) for one of the demes; the "clan" (genos) then became the Eteoboutadai.
R. Parker, Athenian Religion (Oxford 1996) 290-3
Keywords: aetiology; biography; chronology; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; history; mythology; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 12 October 2000@07:34:14.
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