Ἄκρατος οἶνος Ἀγαθοῦ Δαίμονος
unmixed wine of the Good Divinity
Translated by Oliver Phillips â22 Jun 2000Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἄκρατος οἶνος Ἀγαθοῦ Δαίμονος· αἰρομένης τῆς τραπέζης μετὰ τὸ δεῖπνον, ἄκρατος οἶνος περιεφέρετο καὶ ἐκαλεῖτο Ἀγαθοῦ Δαίμονος. οἱ δέ φασι τὸ πρῶτον ποτήριον οὕτω λέγεσθαι. καὶ Ἀκρατότερος.
Betacode
*)/akratos oi)=nos *)agaqou= *dai/monos: ai)rome/nhs th=s trape/zhs meta\ to\ dei=pnon, a)/kratos oi)=nos periefe/reto kai\ e)kalei=to *)agaqou= *dai/monos. oi( de/ fasi to\ prw=ton poth/rion ou(/tw le/gesqai. kai\ *)akrato/teros.
Notes (2)
- See already alpha 122 and the notes there; LSJ entry at web address 1.↩
- 1From the scholia to Aristophanes, Knights 85, where the headword phrase occurs (in the accusative case). (Greek calls the Divinity a "Daimon," a beneficent but unnamed power. Not the "demon" of the NT.) For a relief sculpture of the Agathos Daimon, see web address 2. ↩
- 2cf. under zeta 164.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- α122Ἀγαθοῦ Δαίμονοςof the Good SpiritThe ancients had a custom after dinner of drinking 'of the Good Spirit', by taking an extra quaff of unmixed [wine]; and they call this 'of the Good Spirit', but when they are ready to depart, 'of Zeus the Savior'. And…
- α833Ἀκέραιονunblemished[Meaning] free from evil, whole, pure. It indicates also the man without blemishes.
- α963Ἄκρατονuntempered[Meaning] clear, pure. "A story comes from the Macedonians, which says that an eagle wandering along and stretching out its wings warded off from him both the untempered ray of the sun by hovering over him and, when it…
- α964ἌκρατοςunmixedXenophon [writes]: "the wine was entirely unmixed, unless someone poured water in." And elsewhere: "the woman skilled at sipping three times a cup of unmixed wine."
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