Δανάκη
danake
Translated by Ross Scaife ✝21 Mar 2002Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
This is the name of a coin, which in the old days they gave to the corpses as they buried [them]; [it was the] passenger's-fare on the Acherousian boat. Acherousia is a lake in Hades, which the dead cross, and as they do so they give the aforementioned coin to the ferryman.1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Δανάκη· τοῦτο νομίσματός ἐστιν ὄνομα, ὃ τοῖς νεκροῖς ἐδίδοσαν πάλαι συγκηδεύοντες· νεὼς Ἀχερουσίας ἐπίβαθρον. Ἀχερουσία δέ ἐστι λίμνη ἐν ᾅδου, ἣν διαπορθμεύονται οἱ τελευτῶντες τὸ προειρημένον νόμισμα τῷ πορθμεῖ διδόντες.