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Headword:
Damokritos
Adler number: delta,49
Translated headword: Damokritos, Damocritus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Historian. [He wrote] Tactics in 2 books, [and] On the Jews; in which [latter] he says that they used to bow down to the golden head of an ass, and every seven years hunted a stranger and attacked him and tore his flesh into thin strips and thus killed him.[1]
Greek Original:Damokritos, historikos. Taktika en bibliois b#, Peri Ioudaiôn: en hôi phêsin, hoti chrusên onou kephalên prosekunoun kai kata heptaetian xenon agreuontes prosepheron kai kata lepta tas sarkas diexainon kai houtôs anêiroun.
Notes:
?C1 BC-AD; FGrH 730 (this fragment only, and no testimonia).
[1] Again at
iota 429, where 'seven' years has become three.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 July 2002@23:55:34.
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