Ἐναύειν
to kindle, to light a fire
Translated by Antonella Ippolito14 Oct 2005Vetting: high10 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to share fire. Polybius [writes]: "if any one remained who had not died [sc. in the battle] and escaped the danger, [the Acarnanians decreed] that no city was to receive him or light a fire [for him]. On these decisions they made solemn execrations, especially for the Epirotes, that none of those who fled should be given asylum in the region".1
And elsewhere Aelian [writes]:2 "if ever a disease had spread in the community, the sacred scribes, coming to the burial precinct of this man3 and then performing the due rituals, lit a fire from the altar and kindled some pyres, one for each city; [thus] they drove away from the bad-smelling air the deadly disease, and after having rarefied it they quenched with the flame the newest source of pollution". And elsewhere:4 "through blackmail the Athenian Kallixenos5 got back prizes6 for his impudence and impiety, hated in town and poverty-stricken and incarcerated to die of starvation; for they did not share any water with him, nor were they willing to light a fire, as if to have common dealings with those wishing and needing [to do so]."
And elsewhere Aelian [writes]:2 "if ever a disease had spread in the community, the sacred scribes, coming to the burial precinct of this man3 and then performing the due rituals, lit a fire from the altar and kindled some pyres, one for each city; [thus] they drove away from the bad-smelling air the deadly disease, and after having rarefied it they quenched with the flame the newest source of pollution". And elsewhere:4 "through blackmail the Athenian Kallixenos5 got back prizes6 for his impudence and impiety, hated in town and poverty-stricken and incarcerated to die of starvation; for they did not share any water with him, nor were they willing to light a fire, as if to have common dealings with those wishing and needing [to do so]."