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Headword:
Ἑρμαῖ
Adler number: epsilon,3029
Translated headword: Herms, Hermae, Hermai
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Menekles or Kallistratos in the [treatise] About Athenians writes thus: "for after the Painted [Stoa] and the Royal Stoa are the so-called Herms".[1] Some used to be called Hipparcheian Herms, after Hipparchos the son of Peisistratos.
Greek Original:Ἑρμαῖ: Μενεκλῆς ἢ Καλλιστράτης ἐν τῷ περὶ Ἀθηναίων γράφει ταυτί: ἀπὸ γὰρ τῆς Ποικίλης καὶ τῆς τοῦ βασιλέως στοᾶς εἰσιν οἱ Ἑρμαῖ καλούμενοι. ἐκαλοῦντο δέ τινες καὶ Ἱππάρχειοι Ἑρμαῖ ἀπὸ Ἱππάρχου τοῦ Πεισιστράτου.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., commenting in the first instance on
Aeschines 3.187.
[1] Menekles of Barka [C2 BCE] FGrH 270 F2. The more correct title of the work, in Harpok., is
About Athens. For herms cf.
epsilon 3051; for Menekles cf.
delta 589,
kappa 1354.
OCD(3) 693
Keywords: architecture; art history; biography; historiography; history; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 November 2000@03:57:50.
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