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Headword: *(erma/dion
Adler number: epsilon,3025
Translated headword: Hermadion
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the [sc. diminutive] of a herm [or: of Hermes].
Greek Original:
*(erma/dion: to\ tou= *(ermou=.
Note:
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon -- and an ambiguous one. LSJ s.v. interprets and classifies it as referrring to Herm-statues (epsilon 3029, epsilon 3030, epsilon 3031, epsilon 3033, epsilon 3047); however, since that sense is otherwise attested only epigraphically, the entry might equally well be generated by Lucian, Charon [Author, Myth] 1, where upper-case 'Hermadion' is a diminutive of the name Hermes itself.
Keywords: architecture; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 May 2003@06:57:24.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth on 10 July 2003@01:04:23.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 10 July 2003@08:20:02.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; expanded note) on 28 October 2012@07:55:38.
David Whitehead on 12 February 2016@06:47:36.

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