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Headword:
*kataxu/smata
Adler number: kappa,877
Translated headword: outpourings, showerings
Vetting Status: high
Translation: It was a custom at
Athens, whenever a newly-bought slave entered the house, for the master or mistress to pour a lot of dried figs and nuts over him; these they used to call outpourings. But they say that this also happened to those serving for the first time as envoys and cult-representatives, when they did this for the first time.
*kataxu/smata: e)/qos h)=n *)aqh/nhsin, o(/te new/nhtos oi)ke/ths ei)sa/goito ei)s th\n oi)ki/an, to\n despo/thn h)\ th\n de/spoinan i)sxa/dwn kai\ karu/wn plh=qos kataxei=n au)tou=: a(\ kataxu/smata e)ka/loun. fasi\ de\ kai\ e)pi\ tw=n prw=ton presbeuo/ntwn kai\ e)pi\ tw=n qewrw=n tou=to gi/nesqai, o(/te prw=ton tou=to e)poi/oun.
Notes:
Same entry in
Photius (
Lexicon kappa399 Theodoridis); similar material elsewhere.
See further under
kappa 878.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 17 July 2001@05:10:08.
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