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Headword:
Ἑκάτην
Adler number: epsilon,364
Translated headword: Hekate, Hecate
Vetting Status: low
Translation: "Some [say that she is]
Artemis, others the moon,[1] appearing in strange manifestations for those invoking curses. Her manifestations [are] humans with the heads of dragons, and of immense size, so that the sight stupefies those who see it."
Ἑκάτην: οἱ μὲν τὴν Ἄρτεμιν, οἱ δὲ τὴν σελήνην, ἐν φάσμασιν ἐκτόποις φαινομένην τοῖς καταρωμένοις. τὰ δὲ φάσματα αὐτῆς δρακοντοκέφαλοι ἄνθρωποι καὶ ὑπερμεγέθεις, ὡς τὴν θέαν ἐκπλήττειν τοὺς ὁρῶντας.
Notes:
A paraphrase of ps.-Nonnos'
Commentaries on the Orations of Gregory Nazianzenus [a.k.a.
Scholia Mythologica] 39.10. For
Hekate see already
epsilon 363 and again
epsilon 365. The present headword is the name of the goddess in the accusative case, which is how it appears in the original source.
[1] Here a crucial phrase is omitted from the original: "and some [say she is] a separate goddess appearing..."
Translated by: William Hutton on 7 February 2007@08:56:23.
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