Λεύκη
white-poplar
Translated by David Whitehead5 Dec 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Demosthenes in the [speech] For Ktesiphon [writes]: "those crowned with fennel and white-poplar."1 Those celebrating the Bacchic rites used to be crowned with white-poplar because the plant is from the nether world and the Dionysos of Persephone, too, is from the nether world. He says2 that the white-poplar grew by the [river] Acheron, which is why in Homer it is called acherois.3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λεύκη· Δημοσθένης ἐν τῷ ὑπὲρ Κτησιφῶντος· τοὺς ἐστεφανωμένους τῷ μαράθρῳ καὶ τῇ λεύκῃ. ἐστέφοντο δὲ οἱ τὰ Βακχικὰ τελούμενοι τῇ λεύκῃ διὰ τὸ χθόνιον μὲν εἶναι τὸ φυτόν, χθόνιον δὲ καὶ τὸ τῆς Περσεφόνης Διόνυσον. τὴν δὲ λεύκην πεφυκέναι φησὶ πρὸς τῷ Ἀχέροντι, ὅθεν καὶ Ἀχερωΐδα καλεῖσθαι αὐτὴν παρ' Ὁμήρῳ.
Betacode
*leu/kh: *dhmosqe/nhs e)n tw=| u(pe\r *kthsifw=ntos: tou\s e)stefanwme/nous tw=| mara/qrw| kai\ th=| leu/kh|. e)ste/fonto de\ oi( ta\ *bakxika\ telou/menoi th=| leu/kh| dia\ to\ xqo/nion me\n ei)=nai to\ futo/n, xqo/nion de\ kai\ to\ th=s *persefo/nhs *dio/nuson. th\n de\ leu/khn pefuke/nai fhsi\ pro\s tw=| *)axe/ronti, o(/qen kai\ *)axerwi/+da kalei=sqai au)th\n par' *(omh/rw|.
Notes (3)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history6 revisions · last 20 Apr 2020
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- upgraded links — Catharine Roth
- tweaks — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Added links; added italics; cosmetics; set status — Elizabeth Vandiver
- Translated — David Whitehead