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Headword: *pro/noia
Adler number: pi,2534
Translated headword: Pronoia, Pronaia
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A particular [sc. temple of] Athena at Delphi was named Pronoia, because of its being situated pro tou naou ["in front of the temple"].[1] Herodotus names her Proneie in his [book] 8.[2]
Greek Original:
*pro/noia: w)noma/zeto/ tis para\ *delfoi=s *)aqhna= *pro/noia, dia\ to\ pro\ tou= naou= i(dru/sqai. tau/thn de\ *(hro/dotos e)n th=| h# *pronhi/+hn o)noma/zei.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v., commenting on Aeschines 3.108 (etc.) and citing other material. The headword, there and again here, should actually be Pronaia.
See also pi 2535.
[1] Of Apollo.
[2] Herodotus 8.37.2. This Ionic adjective does mean "in front of a temple": see LSJ entry for pro/naos (web address 1).
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Keywords: architecture; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 December 2000@04:52:06.
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Catharine Roth (augmented note) on 15 July 2002@17:20:46.
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