Δωδεκίδες

twelvers

Translated by Ross Scaife ✝28 May 2002Vetting: high4 revisions

16 words

[Meaning] sacrifices of twelve sacred victims, just as a trittys [is] that [made] out of three.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Δωδεκίδες· θυσίαι δώδεκα ἱερείων, ὡς τριττύς, ἡ ἐκ τριῶν.

Betacode

*dwdeki/des: qusi/ai dw/deka i(erei/wn, w(s trittu/s, h( e)k triw=n.

(See tau 1030 for this in reverse.) The term occurs only in lexicography (unless perhaps in a fragment of Euphorion from P. Oxy. 17.2085).