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Headword: *qesmofo/ria
Adler number: theta,270
Translated headword: Thesmophoria
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Name of a festival.[1]
"Just as at the Thesmophoria we fast [without] sacrifices."[2]
Greek Original:
*qesmofo/ria: o)/noma e(orth=s. w(/sper e)n qesmofori/oisi nhsteu/omen a)\n quhlw=n. *)aristofa/nhs.
Notes:
cf. generally theta 271, theta 272.
[1] A women's festival in honour of Demeter, celebrated (in Athens and elsewhere) in the autumn. See OCD(4) s.v. and more fully e.g. H.W. Parke, Festivals of the Athenians (London 1977) 82-88, 158-160.
[2] Aristophanes, Birds 1519-20 -- but here faulty in transmission: w(/sper e)n should be w(/sperei/ and, more crucially, the particle a)/n should be the preposition a)/neu, "without" (see the tr. above, and web address 1).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; food; religion; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 October 2005@09:41:56.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 19 October 2005@11:31:26.
David Whitehead (augmented n.1; cosmetics) on 20 October 2005@03:10:33.
David Whitehead on 1 January 2013@09:34:00.
David Whitehead on 5 August 2014@07:06:45.

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