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Headword: Ἑβδομευόμενα
Adler number: epsilon,26
Translated headword: seven-days-old
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
They used to mark the seventh and the tenth [days] for newborn children and give them their names, some [say] on the the seventh day, some on the tenth.
Greek Original:
Ἑβδομευόμενα: τοῖς ἀποτεχθεῖσι παιδίοις τὰς ἑβδομάδας καὶ τὰς δεκάτας ἦγον καὶ τά γε ὀνόματα ἐτίθεντο αὐτοῖς, οἱ μὲν τῇ ἑβδόμῃ, οἱ δὲ τῇ δεκάτῃ.
Notes:
From Harpokration s.v. ἑβδομευομένου , commenting on the appearance of this participle (genitive case) in Lysias fr. 95 Sauppe (now 108 Carey OCT).
cf. Etymologicum Magnum 308.40 and Etymologicum Genuinum.
Reference:
Robert Garland, The Greek Way of Life (London 1990) 95 with 313
Keywords: children; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 27 October 2000@02:56:09.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added note) on 9 September 2002@00:33:30.
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords) on 9 September 2002@03:44:34.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 16 November 2005@08:13:11.
Catharine Roth (added italics, raised status) on 16 July 2007@13:44:31.
David Whitehead (updated note; cosmetics) on 6 July 2011@07:27:18.
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