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Headword:
*peri\
*pinda/rou
Adler number: pi,1619
Translated headword: concerning Pindar
Vetting Status: high
Translation: They say that Alexander razed
Thebes to the ground and, sparing only priests and priestesses, enslaved the rest; and they say that he protected the house of the poet
Pindar and the descendants of
Pindar from harm, out of reverence for
Pindar -- so says Arrian the historian in book 1 of his
Anabasis of Alexander.
*peri\ *pinda/rou: o(/ti ta\s *qh/bas th\n po/lin *)ale/candro/n fasin ei)s e)/dafos kataska/yai kai\ plh\n i(erw=n te kai\ i(ere/wn tou\s a)/llous a)ndrapodi/sai: kai\ th\n *pinda/rou de\ tou= poihtou= oi)ki/an kai\ tou\s a)pogo/nous tou= *pinda/rou le/gousin o(/ti a)paqei=s e)fu/lacen, ai)doi= th=| *pinda/rou, w(s fhsi\n *)arriano\s o( i(storiko\s e)n th=| a# *)anaba/sei *)aleca/ndrou.
Note:
From Arrian,
Anabasis 1.9.9-10, on the sack of
Thebes by Alexander the Great in 335 BCE. For the poet
Pindar, see
pi 1617.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 October 2001@08:20:49.
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