Δωδώνη
Dodone, Dodona
Translated by Catharine Roth5 Mar 2005Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
A city in Pelasgian Thesprotis.1
In it there stood an oak-tree, by which there was an oracular shrine with women prophets. When people entered to obtain oracular answers, the oak-tree was moved and made sounds. [The prophetesses] declared that "Zeus says this." And a statue stood in a lofty position holding a staff, and beside it a cauldron stood; and the statue would strike the cauldron, from which a certain harmonious sound came.2
But the utterances of the demons are inarticulate.3
In it there stood an oak-tree, by which there was an oracular shrine with women prophets. When people entered to obtain oracular answers, the oak-tree was moved and made sounds. [The prophetesses] declared that "Zeus says this." And a statue stood in a lofty position holding a staff, and beside it a cauldron stood; and the statue would strike the cauldron, from which a certain harmonious sound came.2
But the utterances of the demons are inarticulate.3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Δωδώνη· πόλις ἐν τῇ Θεσπρωτίδι Πελασγίᾳ. ἐν ᾗ ἵστατο δρῦς, ἐν ᾗ μαντεῖον ἦν γυναικῶν προφητίδων. καὶ εἰσιόντων τῶν μαντευομένων ἐκινεῖτο δῆθεν ἡ δρῦς ἠχοῦσα· αἱ δὲ ἐφθέγγοντο, ὅτι τάδε λέγει ὁ Ζεύς. καὶ ἀνδριὰς ἵστατο ἐν ὕψει ῥάβδον κατέχων, καὶ παρ' αὐτὸν λέβης ἵστατο· καὶ ἔπαιεν ὁ ἀνδριὰς τὸν λέβητα, ἐξ οὗ ἦχός τις ἐναρμόνιος ἀπετελεῖτο. αἱ δὲ τῶν δαιμόνων φωναὶ ἄναρθροί εἰσιν.
Betacode
*dwdw/nh: po/lis e)n th=| *qesprwti/di *pelasgi/a|. e)n h(=| i(/stato dru=s, e)n h(=| mantei=on h)=n gunaikw=n profhti/dwn. kai\ ei)sio/ntwn tw=n manteuome/nwn e)kinei=to dh=qen h( dru=s h)xou=sa: ai( de\ e)fqe/ggonto, o(/ti ta/de le/gei o( *zeu/s. kai\ a)ndria\s i(/stato e)n u(/yei r(a/bdon kate/xwn, kai\ par' au)to\n le/bhs i(/stato: kai\ e)/paien o( a)ndria\s to\n le/bhta, e)c ou(= h)=xo/s tis e)narmo/nios a)petelei=to. ai( de\ tw=n daimo/nwn fwnai\ a)/narqroi/ ei)sin.
Notes (2)
- [1] cf. already delta 1446.↩
- 2cf. already delta 1445. ↩
- 3A Christian remark, from a scholion (Cat. Bodl. p.47) on Gregory of Nazianzus = ps.-Nonnus, Scholia mythologica 5.17 (adding 'because of their not having organs of speech').
Linked from4 entries
- α4463Αὐτάγγελοςself-announcing, announcing what one has seen[Meaning] that which delivers announcements from itself. "For the oak herself will tell you, self-announcing"; for it has writings. And elsewhere: "he would have come from the king/emperor as an announcer of these…
- δ1445Δωδωναῖον χαλκεῖονDodonian bronze[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those who speak a little. For Demon says that the oracle of Zeus at Dodona is surrounded by cauldrons in a circle. They touch each other, and when one is struck all of them…
- δ1446ΔωδωναῖοςDodonian[sc. An epithet of] Zeus, inasmuch as he used to be honored in Dodona, in Thesprotia.
- δ1717Δυσχείμεροςwintry, with harsh winters[no gloss]
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Revision history5 revisions · last 21 Dec 2014
- coding — Catharine Roth
- expanded n.3 — David Whitehead
- another keyword — David Whitehead
- augmented note 3 — Catharine Roth
- augmented keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth