A temple of idols.
*)orxomeno/s: nao\s tw=n ei)dw/lwn.
A thoroughly puzzling entry. The headword looks like a participle, except for the accent, but as it does not fit with any attested verb, it is presumably a proper noun. Several individuals named
Orchomenos appear in Greek mythology (e.g. one of the sons of Thyestes); and cities called
Orchomenos were located in Boeotia and Arcadia.
Hesychius omicron1380 has this headword with the gloss
po/lis *boiwti/as, h(\n *minu/eion kalou=sin ("a city of Boeotia, which they call Minyan"; prompted by
Homer,
Iliad 2.511), and the
Etymologicum Magnum glosses similarly. However, none of that comes near to explaining the present Christian-inspired gloss, which has already appeared at
epsiloniota 42 (and cf. a fragment of
Photius'
Commentary on Paul's 2nd Epistle to the Corinthians, "the temple of God and the temple of idols").
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