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Headword: Δανάκη
Adler number: delta,59
Translated headword: danake
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
This is the name of a coin which in the old days they gave to the corpses as they buried them, as the fare on the boat over Acherousia. Acherousia is a lake in Hades, which the dead cross, and as they do so they give the aforementioned coin to the ferryman.[1]
Greek Original:
Δανάκη: τοῦτο νομίσματός ἐστιν ὄνομα, ὃ τοῖς νεκροῖς ἐδίδοσαν πάλαι συγκηδεύοντες: νεὼς Ἀχερουσίας ἐπίβαθρον. Ἀχερουσία δέ ἐστι λίμνη ἐν ᾅδου, ἣν διαπορθμεύονται οἱ τελευτῶντες τὸ προειρημένον νόμισμα τῷ πορθμεῖ διδόντες.
Notes:
LSJ: Persian coin, worth rather more than an obol: hence, the coin buried with a corpse as Charon [Author, Myth]'s fee, Call.Fr.110, Poll. 9.82, Hsch., EM247.41.
[1] For this sentence cf. alpha 4686.
Keywords: definition; economics; geography; mythology; religion
Translated by: Ross Scaife on 21 March 2002@07:49:11.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (Added keywords, cosmetics, raised status) on 21 March 2002@09:46:41.
David Whitehead (added note) on 10 April 2002@03:46:25.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 5 December 2005@08:36:21.
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