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Headword:
*nekui/a
Adler number: nu,146
Translated headword: Nekuia
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The festival of the dead, among Persians [called]
phroudiga, in Greek
Nekuia.[1]
Also [sc. attested is]
nekuosto/los ["ferryman of the dead"], [meaning] he who transports the dead.[2]
"Carrier of the dead, ferryman, receive [me]
Diogenes the dog, who have laid bare the pretentiousness of every life."[3]
*nekui/a: h( tw=n nekrw=n e(orth/, froudi/ga para\ *pe/rsais, *(ellhnikh\ nekui/a. kai\ *nekuosto/los, o( tou\s nekrou\s diaperw=n. to\n ku/na *dioge/nhn, nekuosto/le, de/cai porqmeu=, gumnw/santa bi/ou panto\s e)pisku/nion.
Notes:
On the Persian festival of the dead, Fravardīgān, see Boyce (122-123).
[1] Part of
Menander Protector fr. 9.1 Blockley (98-99). See further excerpts from this fragment at
alpha 3048,
alpha 4374,
epsilon 958,
iota 449,
omicron 346,
pi 375, and
upsilon 69.
[2] i.e. Charon [
Author,
Myth] (
chi 135,
chi 140)
[3]
Greek Anthology 7.63 (author unknown); cf.
epsilon 2591 and note thereto on the epigram's ascription. On
Diogenes the Cynic, see
delta 1141,
delta 1143, and
delta 1144.
M. Boyce, A History of Zoroastrianism, vol. I, (Leiden 1989)
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
Keywords: biography; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; imagery; philosophy; poetry; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 October 2005@00:54:40.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (tweaked tr; augmented notes and keywords) on 26 October 2005@04:11:21.
Catharine Roth (modified translation at Hutton's suggestion) on 3 December 2007@10:47:57.
Catharine Roth (further modified the translation) on 3 December 2007@19:09:46.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 3 January 2012@06:52:40.
David Whitehead on 5 June 2013@07:52:59.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 21 October 2020@00:46:24.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, tweaked attribution, added cross-reference) on 29 January 2021@19:08:45.
Ronald Allen (added bibliography n.1) on 20 October 2024@11:39:13.
Ronald Allen (added primary note and bibliography item) on 22 October 2024@12:22:29.
Ronald Allen (added cross-references n.1) on 24 October 2024@11:10:08.
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