Διόσκουροι
Dioscuri, Dioskouroi
Translated by Malcolm Heath10 Feb 2001Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Castor and Polydeuces.1 Aelian: "And there were also two statues of the Dioscuri, large youths, with no beard on their cheeks, similar in appearance, each of them wearing a military cloak over their shoulders; they held spears upright beside them, on which they were leaning, one of them on his right hand, the other on his left."2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Διόσκουροι· Κάστωρ καὶ Πολυδεύκης. Αἰλιανός· καὶ μέντοι καὶ Διοσκούρων ἦν ἀγάλματα βʹ νεανίαι μεγάλοι, γυμνοὶ τὰς παρειὰς ἑκάτερος, ὅμοιοι τὸ εἶδος καὶ χλαμύδας ἔχοντες ἐπὶ τῶν ὤμων, ἐφημμένην ἑκάτερος· καὶ ξίφη ἔφερον τῶν χλαμύδων ἠρτημένα καὶ λόγχας εἶχον παρεστώσας, καθ' ἃς ἠρείδοντο, ὁ μὲν κατὰ δεξιάν, ὁ δὲ κατὰ λαιάν.