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Headword:
ai)tiatikh=|
Adler number: psi,157
Translated headword: leads souls, summons souls
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Used] with an accusative. [Meaning he/she/it] encourages, delights;[1] or brings up souls.
Aristophanes in
Birds [writes]: "by the [land of] the Shadow-feet there is a swamp, where Socrates leads souls."[2]
Concerning
yuxagwgi/a ['evocation of souls'].[3] "They make certain magic spells against the dead; for when they come to the place from which it is possible to lead the souls which the petitioners desire, they arrive where those to be summoned have died. And they do not find the place immediately, but track it down in this manner. Taking a black sheep, holding it either by one of its horns or by the forefeet, and standing it on the other feet, they lead it around. It follows quite obediently where it is dragged. But when it arrives where he or she was brought down, there the sheep throws itself down. And when this happens, then putting the sheep out of the way and hiding it, with some various ceremonies and chants they are led around and walk around [the place] and they listen to those who speak and enquire the causes for which they are angered."
"Antoninus the emperor of the Romans also summoned souls [to ask] about his father Commodus."[4]
Polybios says, "These men delayed concerning these matters, summoning their powers."[5] Meaning encouraging.
*yuxagwgei=: ai)tiatikh=|. paramuqei=tai, te/rpei: h)\ yuxa\s a)na/gei. *)aristofa/nhs *)/ornisi: pro\s de\ toi=s *skia/posi li/mnh e)sti/n, ou(= yuxagwgei= *swkra/ths. *peri\ yuxagwgi/as. gohtei/as tina\s poiou=sin e)s tou\s nekrou/s: e)pa\n ga\r e)s ta\ xwri/a a)fi/kwntai o(/qen a)/gein e)/sti ta\s yuxa/s, a(\s poqou=sin oi( deo/menoi, a)fiknou=ntai e)/nqa teqna=sin oi( yuxagwgou/menoi: kai\ ou)x eu(ri/skousi paraxrh=ma to\n xw=ron, a)lla\ a)nixneu/ousi to\n tro/pon tou=ton. pro/baton me/lan paralabo/ntes, ei)=ta tou= ke/ratos tou= e(te/rou labo/menoi h)\ tw=n podw=n tw=n prosqi/wn kai\ e)pi\ toi=s posi\ toi=s a)/llois sth/santes peria/gousi: to\ de\ e(/petai th=| e(/lcei, kai\ ma/la eu)peiqw=s. o(/tan de\ a)fi/khtai e)/nqa e)kei=nos h)\ e)kei/nh kat- hne/xqh, e)ntau=qa to\ pro/baton e(auto\ e)/rriye: kai\ tou/tou genome/nou, ei)=ta to\ pro/baton e)kpodw\n poih/santes kai\ katakru/yantes su\n kai/ tisi poiki/lais i(erourgi/ais kai\ e)pw|dai=s perihgou=ntai kai\ perie/rxontai au)ta\ kai\ a)kou/ousi lego/ntwn kai\ ta\s ai)ti/as, di' a(\s mhni/ousi, punqa/nontai. e)yuxagw/ghse de\ kai\ *)antwni=nos o( *(rwmai/wn basileu\s peri\ *komo/dou tou= patro\s au)tou=. fhsi\ *polu/bios, ou(=toi me\n peri\ tau=ta die/tribon, yuxagwgou=ntes ta\s duna/meis. a)nti\ tou= paramuqou/menoi.
Notes:
The SOL headword here, mistakenly, is the first word of the entry itself. The true headword,
yuxagwgei=, is presumably extracted from the Aristophanic quotation given. For this verb cf.
epsilon 4077.
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Birds 1553-5 (web address 1). For the 'Shadow-feet' see
sigma 600,
sigma 601. For Socrates, see
sigma 829.
[3] The material which follows is perhaps from
Aelian (so Adler; Bernhardy, more cautiously, suggested a writer 'from the [Second] sophistic era').
[4] Tentatively attributed by Adler to John of
Antioch, who also noted Kuster's suggestion that the names be reversed: Commodus asks about his father 'Antoninus' (actually Marcus Aurelius). But see now C. Theodoridis in his
Photius edition (vol.II p.XC), attributing the passage to
Cassius Dio (77.15.4: vol.III p.392.7-9 Boissevain =
Excerpta de virtutibus II p.395.21-24). In this context 'Antoninus' is Caracalla, and modern editors supply 'and' between the mentions of his father (sc. Septimius
Severus) and Commodus.
[5]
Polybius fr. 89 Büttner-Wobst.
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 12 January 2006@01:43:34.
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