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Headword:
*(ermai=
Adler number: epsilon,3029
Translated headword: Herms, Hermae, Hermai
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Menekles or Kallistrates[1] in the [treatise] About Athenians writes thus: "for after the Painted [Stoa] and the Royal Stoa are the so-called Herms".[2] Some used to be called Hipparcheian Herms, after Hipparchos the son of Peisistratos.
Greek Original:*(ermai=: *meneklh=s h)\ *kallistra/ths e)n tw=| peri\ *)aqhnai/wn gra/fei tauti/: a)po\ ga\r th=s *poiki/lhs kai\ th=s tou= basile/ws stoa=s ei)sin oi( *(ermai= kalou/menoi. e)kalou=nto de/ tines kai\ *(ippa/rxeioi *(ermai= a)po\ *(ippa/rxou tou= *peisistra/tou.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., commenting in the first instance on
Aeschines 3.187.
[1] Harpok. gives this second name as Kallikrates; cf.
kappa 1354.
[2] Menekles of Barka [C2 BCE] FGrH 270 F2. The more correct title of the work, in Harpok., is
About Athens. For herms cf.
epsilon 3051; for Menekles cf.
delta 589,
kappa 1354.
OCD(4) p.671
Keywords: architecture; art history; biography; historiography; history; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 November 2000@03:57:50.
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