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Headword:
*dimh/twr
Adler number: delta,1124
Translated headword: twice-born
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. An adjective applied to] Dionysos.
Greek Original:*dimh/twr: o( *dio/nusos.
Note:
See e.g.
Diodorus Siculus 3.62.5: "Dionysos was named twice-born by the ancients, counting it as a single and first birth when the plant is set in the ground and begins to grow, and as a second birth when it becomes laden with fruit and ripens its grape-clusters -- the god thus being considered as having been born once from the earth and again from the vine"), and generally LSJ s.v.
Keywords: agriculture; botany; food; historiography; history; mythology; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 October 2004@03:31:19.
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