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Headword: Παλλαδίων χρυσουμένων
Adler number: pi,36
Translated headword: Palladia being gilded
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
On the prows of their triremes the Athenians used to set up certain wooden images to Athena, which they would attend to when about to set sail.
Greek Original:
Παλλαδίων χρυσουμένων: ἐν ταῖς πρώραις τῶν τριήρων οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι ἀγάλματά τινα ξύλινα τῇ Ἀθηνᾷ καθίδρυον, ὧν ἐπεμελοῦντο μέλλοντες πλεῖν.
Note:
The headword phrase, in the gentive case, comes from Aristophanes, Acharnians 547 (web address 1), where it is part of the description of a war-fleet being prepared. Comment from the scholia follows.
Reference:
L. Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore & London 1995) 346 n.8
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: art history; comedy; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; military affairs; religion; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 9 October 2001@02:58:33.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (modified headword, added link, set status) on 12 December 2003@21:12:53.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 15 December 2003@10:45:00.
David Whitehead (expanded note; more keywords) on 26 August 2011@05:01:44.
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