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Headword:
Θαργήλια
Adler number: theta,49
Translated headword: Thargelia
Vetting Status: low
Translation: A festival of
Artemis and of
Apollo. [There is] also a month [called] Thargelion.[1] And the pot full of seeds of the sacred mash; for they used to boil in it to the god the first-fruits of the crops which had appeared, named from heating [
θέρειν ] the earth [
γῆ ], which is the same as the sun. Choruses took place in it [the festival]. And [sc. there is a saying] "A Thargelia of good things."[2]
Θαργήλια: ἑορτὴ Ἀρτέμιδος καὶ Ἀπόλλωνος. καὶ μὴν Θαργηλιών. καὶ ὁ τῶν σπερμάτων μεστὸς χύτρος ἱεροῦ ἑψέματος. ἥψουν δ' ἐν αὐτῇ ἀπαρχὰς τῷ θεῷ τῶν πεφηνότων καρπῶν, ὀνομαζόμενον ἀπὸ τοῦ θέρειν τὴν γῆν, τὸν αὐτὸν ὄντα τῷ ἡλίῳ. ἵσταντο δὲ ἐν αὐτῇ καὶ χοροί. καὶ ἀγαθῶν Θαργήλια.
Notes:
[1] See also
theta 50.
[2] Similarly glossed in
Photius,
Hesychius, and other lexica. (The saying, for which cf. generically
theta 60, is not in the paroemiographers.)
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 February 2008@23:16:59.
Vetted by: David Whitehead (augmented n.2 and keywords; tweaks) on 17 February 2008@08:06:09.
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