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Headword:
*dio\s
yh=fos
Adler number: delta,1213
Translated headword: Zeus's tribunal, Zeus's vote
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Thus it is called, in which Athena and Poseidon were judged.
Cratinus in
Archilochoi [writes]: "where they are called chairs and game-boards of great Zeus."[1] For the place, in which they were judged, is called Zeus's tribunal. The saying applies to things which are divine and inviolable.[2]
*dio\s yh=fos: ou(/tws kalei=tai, e)n w(=| *)aqhna= kai\ *poseidw=n e)kri/qhsan. *krati=nos *)arxilo/xois: e)/nqa *dio\s mega/lou qa=koi pessoi/ te kalou=ntai. o( ga\r to/pos, e)n w(=| e)kri/qhsan, *dio\s yh=fos kalei=tai. ta/ttetai de\ h( paroimi/a e)pi\ tw=n i(erw=n kai\ a)qi/ktwn.
Notes:
Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
The contest between Athena and Poseidon for patronage of
Athens was shown on the west pediment of the Parthenon; see also e.g.
Herodotus 8.55,
Pausanias 1.24.3.
[1]
Cratinus fr.7 Kock (and K.-A).
[2]
Apostolius 6.20 and other paroemiographers.
Translated by: James Hicks on 21 January 2004@19:59:04.
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