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Headword:
*mu/hsis
Adler number: mu,1386
Translated headword: initiation
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] learning, instruction, understanding.[1]
It is said from celebrating mysterious and secret [rites], or because when they shut [mu/ontas] their senses and go beyond bodily imagination they receive divine illumination.[2]
Greek Original:*mu/hsis: ma/qhsis, kath/xhsis, e)pisth/mh. ei)/rhtai de\ para\ to\ musth/ria kai\ a)po/rrhta telei=sqai, h)\ dia\ to\ mu/ontas ta\s ai)sqh/seis kai\ e)pe/keina swmatikh=s fantasi/as genome/nous ta\s qei/as ei)sde/xesqai e)lla/myeis.
Notes:
cf. generally
mu 1385,
mu 1422.
[1] Likewise in the
Synagoge,
Photius (mu576 Theodoridis), the
Lexica Segueriana (304.12), and a gloss on
Dionysius the Areopagite (PG 4.26c); similarly elsewhere.
[2] Source (not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG): ps.-
Nonnus,
Scholia Mythologica 4.69 (where the subject of
ei)/rhtai is
to\ muei=sqai "to be initiated").
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 August 2009@01:19:47.
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