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Headword:
Δανάη
Adler number: delta,57
Translated headword: Danaë
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name.
[The daughter] of Acrisius. "Go be judged: you are not Danaë [the daughter] of Acrisius."[1]
For when she was responding stubbornly to a lawsuit, a certain wiseguy said to her: "Go be judged: you are not Danaë the daughter of Acrisius. "And this mastered the mind of Danaë";[2] that is, gold.
The danikon is in currency at Great
Antioch of
Syria, which they use for small transactions.[3]
Δανάη: ὄνομα κύριον. ἡ Ἀκρισίου. κρίθητι καὶ σύ: οὐκ εἶ Δανάη ἡ Ἀκρισίου. ταύτης γὰρ δυσπειθῶς πρός τινα δίκην ἀπαντώσης, σοφός τις πρὸς αὐτὴν ἀπεφθέγξατο: κρίθητι καὶ σύ: οὐκ εἶ Δανάη ἡ Ἀκρισίου θυγάτηρ. καὶ Δανάης ἐλύγωσεν ὅδε φρένα. τουτέστιν ὁ χρυσός. ἐπιχωριάζει τῇ μεγάλῃ Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῆς Συρίας τὸ δανικόν, ᾧπερ χρῶνται εἰς μικρὰς πραγματείας.
Notes:
[1] Lucian,
Demonax 47. The joke is that
Akrisios can literally mean "man with bad judgment" or "man who is unjudged"; from
alpha 984.
[2]
Greek Anthology 5.217.7, quoted from
epsilon 919. The allusion is to
Zeus visiting
Danae (and fathering Perseus) as a shower of gold.
[3] Source unidentifiable, but Adler's apparatus suggests Symeon Metaphrastes. The term
danikon, found only here, is evidently a variant of
delta 59.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 20 July 2002@14:17:27.
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