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Headword: *)epo/ptai
Adler number: epsilon,2808
Translated headword: advanced initiates, epoptai
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Those who receive the mysteries are at first called mu/stai ["initiates"], but after a year [they are called] e)po/ptai ["those who see"] and e)/foroi ["those who watch"].
Greek Original:
*)epo/ptai: oi( ta\ musth/ria paralamba/nontes le/gontai e)n a)rxh=| me\n mu/stai, meta\ de\ e)niauto\n e)po/ptai kai\ e)/foroi.
Notes:
From a scholion on Aristophanes, Frogs 745, where the derived verb e)popteu/ein occurs.
cf. epsilon 2809, epsilon 2810, epsilon 2838, epsilon 2845.
Reference:
G.E. Mylonas, Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries (Princeton 1961) 274-278
Keywords: chronology; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 May 2003@01:16:10.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added x-refs) on 26 May 2003@03:50:05.
David Whitehead on 23 October 2012@07:48:27.
David Whitehead (bibliography) on 23 October 2012@09:05:52.
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