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*(/hra
Adler number: eta,449
Translated headword: Hera
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the air.[1] And because the air purifies, her image supports a bronze pair of scissors, from a metaphor of the scissors which cut the hair and make the body pure.[2]
Greek Original:*(/hra: o( a)h/r. kai\ e)pei\ o( a)h\r kaqai/rei, to\ ei)/dwlon au)th=s a)nti- basta/zei yali/da xalkh=n, a)po\ metafora=s th=s keirou/shs yali/dos ta\s tri/xas kai\ kaqaro\n a)podeiknuou/shs to\ sw=ma.
Notes:
[1] A folk-etymology for the name of the goddess Hera; cf.
eta 503.
[2] ps.-Codinus,
Patria Constantinopoleos 2.5 (= Preger,
Scriptores originum Constantinopolitanarum 153.7-11).
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 6 July 2006@01:24:47.
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