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Headword:
Ἀρκτεῦσαι
Adler number: alpha,3959
Translated headword: to be a bear
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Lysias used [the verb] "to be a bear" of consecrating virgins, before marriage, to
Artemis.[1] For the virgins are called "being bears", as
Euripides and
Aristophanes show.[2]
Greek Original:Ἀρκτεῦσαι: Λυσίας τὸ καθιερωθῆναι πρὸ γάμων τὰς παρθένους τῇ Ἀρτέμιδι ἀρκτεύειν ἔλεγε. καὶ γὰρ αἱ ἀρκτευόμεναι παρθένοι καλοῦνται, ὡς Εὐριπίδης καὶ Ἀριστοφάνης δηλοῖ.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v. See also, more fully,
alpha 3958.
The verb
arkteuein -- here in the aorist active infinitive -- might have been expected to be transitive, "to make (someone into) a bear"; nevertheless, lexicographers and scholiasts seem confident that the active voice as well as the middle - also used here - was intransitive.
[1]
Lysias fr. 249 Sauppe, now 303 Carey OCT (from the lost speech On behalf of
Phrynichus' daughter).
[2]
Euripides fr.767 Nauck;
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 645 and fr. 370 Kock (386 Kassel-Austin).
OCD(3) 258-9 (s.v. Brauron).
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; imagery; religion; rhetoric; tragedy; women; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 24 November 2000@11:14:42.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (modified translation) on 25 August 2002@01:38:02.
David Whitehead (modified headword and translation, after discussion with CR; added notes and keywords) on 25 August 2002@05:56:32.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 30 June 2011@09:06:39.
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