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Headword:
*pracidi/kh
Adler number: pi,2212
Translated headword: Penalty-Exacter, Punisher
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A deity,[1] whose head alone is venerated.[2]
Mnaseas in his [treatise]
On Europe [says] that Soter and his sister Praxidike ['Penalty-Exacter'] had a son Ktesios and daughters Homonoia and Arete, who were called Penalty-Exacters after their mother.[3] Dionysios in
Foundations [sc. says that it was] daughters of Ogygos -- Alkomeneia, Thelxineia,
Aulis -- who were afterwards named Penalty-Exacters.[4]
*pracidi/kh: qeo/s, h(=s kefalh\n mo/non i(dru/onto. *mnase/as de\ e)n tw=| peri\ *eu)rw/phs *swth=ros kai\ th=s a)delfh=s *pracidi/khs gene/sqai *kth/sion ui(o\n kai\ qugate/ras *(omo/noian kai\ *)areth/n, a(\s a)po\ th=s mhtro\s *pracidi/kas klhqh=nai. *dionu/sios de\ e)n *kti/sesin *)wgu/gou qugate/ras, *)alkome/neian, *qelci/neian, *au)li/da, a(\s u(/steron *pracidi/kas o)nomasqh=nai.
Notes:
Same entry in
Photius (pi1139 Theodoridis), similar one elsewhere.
For sources other than the ones cited here (e.g.
Pausanias 3.22.2) see LSJ s.v.
[1] Female, as the headword shows (and the entry proceeds to explain).
[2] In LSJ s.v. this is taken to mean 'represented with a bare head'.
[3]
Mnaseas of
Patrai (C3 BCE) fr.17 FHG (3.152).
[4] Dionysios of Chalkis [
Myth,
Place] (?C4 BCE) fr.3 FHG (4.394). For Ogygos cf.
omega 12,
omega 13.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 25 October 2001@06:57:12.
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