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Headword:
*trito/mhnis
Adler number: tau,1021
Translated headword: third-of-the-month
Vetting Status: high
Translation: They used to call the third [day] of a month third-of-the-month. Athena seems to have been born then. Istros says that she is referred to as Tritogeneia, and is considered the same as the moon.[1]
Greek Original:*trito/mhnis: th\n tri/thn tou= mhno\s tritomh/nida e)ka/loun. dokei= de\ gegenh=sqai to/te h( *)aqhna=. *)/istros de\ kai\ *tritoge/neian au)th/n fhsi le/gesqai, th\n au)th\n th=| selh/nh| nomizome/nhn.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration (and
Photius) s.v., glossing
Lycurgus fr. 48 Conomis.
[1] Istros FGrH 334 F2; cf.
tau 1019,
tau 1020. For the (numerous) other ways of explaining the name Tritogeneia see LSJ s.v.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 December 2000@08:32:36.
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