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Headword: *xalkidiko\n di/wgma
Adler number: chi,43
Translated headword: Chalkidian pursuit, Chalcidian pursuit
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
At the Thesmophoria [festival] at Athens[1] [there was] a certain ritual [commemorating an occasion when] in wartime the women had prayed that the enemy be pursued, and what happened was that they were expelled to Chalkis [Myth, Place]; so also Semos [says].[2]
Greek Original:
*xalkidiko\n di/wgma: toi=s *qesmofo/rois *)aqh/nhsi/ ti no/mimon e)n pole/mw| gunaikw=n eu)came/nwn diwxqh=nai tou\s polemi/ous, kai\ sune/bh fugei=n ei)s *xalki/da: w(s kai\ *sh=mos.
Notes:
See also Hesychius s.v. (delta2036 and chi86), and H.W. Parke, Festivals of the Athenians (London 1977) 87.
[1] See generally theta 270.
[2] Semos of Delos (sigma 327): FGrH 396 F21.
Keywords: aetiology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; mythology; religion; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 27 November 2005@10:05:55.
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Catharine Roth (set status) on 27 November 2005@18:22:02.
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