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Headword:
*pari/a
li/qos
Adler number: pi,644
Translated headword: Parian marble
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Feminine, the stone [of that name].[1]
Aelian [writes]: "and yet a chariot [made] of Parian marble that had been dedicated to Dionysus, a marvelous work, he broke into the temple and carried off."[2]
*pari/a li/qos: qhluko/n, h( li/qos. *ai)liano/s: kai\ me/ntoi kai\ *pari/as li/qou a(/rma a)nakei/menon *dionu/sw|, poi/hma qaumasto/n, a)nei/leto qeosulh/sas.
Notes:
[1] The noun
li/qos may be masculine or feminine; see LSJ s.v. A.II (web address 1 below). For the marble, prized for its whiteness, from the Aegean island of
Paros cf.
pi 643.
[2]
Aelian fr. 128 Domingo-Forasté (125 Hercher); the Suda provides the only evidence for this incident. Hercher emends the final Greek word from an aorist participle to the adjective
qeosu/lhs: "the sacrilegious man carried off".
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Translated by: Tony Natoli on 16 August 2011@06:20:15.
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