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Headword:
Ἥρα
Adler number: eta,449
Translated headword: Hera
Vetting Status: low
Translation: The air.[1] And because the air purifies, her image supports a bronze pair of scissors, from a metaphor of the scissors which cut the hair and make the body pure.[2]
Greek Original:Ἥρα: ὁ ἀήρ. καὶ ἐπεὶ ὁ ἀὴρ καθαίρει, τὸ εἴδωλον αὐτῆς ἀντι- βαστάζει ψαλίδα χαλκῆν, ἀπὸ μεταφορᾶς τῆς κειρούσης ψαλίδος τὰς τρίχας καὶ καθαρὸν ἀποδεικνυούσης τὸ σῶμα.
Notes:
[1] A folk-etymology for the name of the goddess
Hera; cf.
eta 503.
[2] Preger,
Scriptores originum Constantinopolitarum 153.7-11.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 6 July 2006@01:24:47.
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