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Headword:
*swth/r
Adler number: sigma,874
Translated headword: savior, protector, deliverer, preserver
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] our God.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the feminine] *sw/teira ["saviour-goddess"]. "o light-bringing savior-goddess, stay in the lands of Pallas, Artemis, and give your sweet light to a man."[2]
Greek Original:*swth/r: o( qeo\s h(mw=n. kai\ *sw/teira. *fwsfo/ros w)= sw/teir', e)pi\ *palla/dos e(/staqi klh/rwn, *)/artemi, kai\ xa/rien fw=s e(o\n a)ndri\ di/dou.
Notes:
[1] A Christian gloss; cf. under
alpha 4413,
sigma 481.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.267.1-2 (
Diotimus); cf.
kappa 1784. 'Pallas' should be 'Pollis'. On this epigram, Pollis's dedication to Artemis on his estate, see Gow and Page (vol. I, 94); (vol. II, 272-273); and further extracts from this epigram at
alpha 2486,
alpha 4566, and
iota 238. On the correction to 'Pollis', see
kappa 1784 note.
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)
Keywords: Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; religion
Translated by: Kyle Heath on 16 November 2005@21:30:14.
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