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Headword:
*saba/zios
Adler number: sigma,3
Translated headword: Sabazios, Sabazius
Vetting Status: high
Translation: He is the same [sc. god] as Dionysos.[1] He acquired this form of address from the rite pertaining to him; for the barbarians call the bacchic cry "sabazein". Hence some of the Greeks too follow suit and call the cry "sabasmos"; thereby Dionysos [becomes] Sabazios. They also used to call "saboi" those places that had been dedicated to him and his Bacchants.
Greek Original:*saba/zios: o( au)to/s e)sti tw=| *dionu/sw|. e)/tuxe de\ th=s proshgori/as tau/ths para\ to\n gino/menon peri\ au)to\n qeiasmo/n: to\ ga\r eu)a/zein oi( ba/rbaroi saba/zein fasi/n. o(/qen kai\ tw=n *(ellh/nwn tine\s a)kolouqou=ntes to\n eu)asmo\n sabasmo\n le/gousin: e)/nqen *saba/zios o( *dio/nusos. sa/bous e)/legon kai\ tou\s a)fierwme/nous au)tw=| to/pous kai\ tou\s *ba/kxous au)tou=.
Notes:
Drawn from the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Birds 873, where the headword occurs in the dative case; cf. those to
Lysistrata 388 (Sabazioi), and
Etymologicum Magnum 707.14.
See also
sigma 12 (and cf.
sigma 4).
[1] Rather, a deity with some Dionysos-like attributes. See in brief Robert Parker in OCD4 s.v. (p.1302).
Translated by: Alex Gottesman on 16 April 2000@22:36:30.
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