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Headword: Δορύξενος
Adler number: delta,1399
Translated headword: spear-friend
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
A friend from among the enemy, one negotiating about ransom, if people are taken prisoner alive.[1]
Like Glaukos and Diomedes [Author, Myth].[2]
They used to call "spear-friends" also those who acquired guest-friend relationships in any manner. "Of such a man, with whom always our friendly hearth is shared." Or now [it is used] intensively, meaning [a woman] who is friendly even to enemies.[3]
Greek Original:
Δορύξενος: ὁ ἐκ τῶν πολεμίων φίλος, ὁ πρεσβεύων περὶ λύτρων, εἰ ζωγρηθεῖέν τινες. ὡς Γλαῦκος καὶ Διομήδης. Δορυξένους ἐκάλουν καὶ τοὺς ὁπωσοῦν ἐπιξενωθέντας. ἀνδρὸς τοιοῦδ', ὅτῳ πρῶτον μὲν ἡ δορύξενος κοινὴ παρ' ἡμῖν αἰέν ἐστιν ἑστία. ἢ ἐπιτατικῶς νῦν, ἀντὶ τοῦ ἡ καὶ πολεμίοις φίλη.
Notes:
Cf. iota 114.
[1] Pausanias the Atticist fr.282 (Eustathius I.405.46). See generally zeta 117, zeta 120, zeta 121, zeta 122.
[2] (sc. in Homer, Iliad 6.119ff.) Scholion on Sophocles, Electra 46 (web address 1); cf. scholion on Lucian, Phalaris 2.1.
[3] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 631-3 (web address 2) with scholion.
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Keywords: daily life; definition; epic; military affairs; mythology; tragedy; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 21 May 2005@19:28:57.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 22 May 2005@04:15:47.
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