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Headword:
*pa/ndhmos
*)afrodi/th
Adler number: pi,175
Translated headword: Aphrodite Pandemos
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This is what they used to call the [sc. goddess] established near the old
agora [sc. in
Athens], because of the fact that long ago the people gathered there in assemblies, which they called agorai. Pandemos means common to all.
Greek Original:*pa/ndhmos *)afrodi/th: ou(/tws e)ka/loun th\n a)fidruqei=san peri\ th\n a)rxai/an a)gora\n dia\ to\ e)ntau=qa pa/nta to\n dh=mon suna/gesqai topalaio\n, a(\s e)ka/loun a)gora/s. e)/sti de\ to\ pa/ndhmon pa/gkoinon.
Note:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v. (commenting in the first instance on
Hyperides fr. 143 Jensen), where this information is credited to
Apollodorus (FGrH 244 F113).
Keywords: aetiology; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 December 2000@06:12:40.
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