Μίθρου
Mithras', of Mithras
Translated by Catharine Roth27 May 2004Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
"The Persians believe the sun to be Mithras and they offer to him many sacrifices".
"[...] so no one would be able to be initiated into his cult, unless, going through some steps of ordeals, he shows himself holy and free from passion".
"[...] so no one would be able to be initiated into his cult, unless, going through some steps of ordeals, he shows himself holy and free from passion".
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μίθρου· Μίθραν νομίζουσιν εἶναι οἱ Πέρσαι τὸν ἥλιον καὶ τούτῳ θύουσι πολλὰς θυσίας. οὐκ ἂν οὖν εἰς αὐτὸν δυνήσαιτό τις τελεσθῆναι, εἰ μὴ διά τινων βαθμῶν παρελθὼν τῶν κολάσεων δείξει ἑαυτὸν ὅσιον καὶ ἀπαθῆ.
Betacode
*mi/qrou: *mi/qran nomi/zousin ei)=nai oi( *pe/rsai to\n h(/lion kai\ tou/tw| qu/ousi polla\s qusi/as. ou)k a)\n ou)=n ei)s au)to\n dunh/saito/ tis telesqh=nai, ei) mh\ dia/ tinwn baqmw=n parelqw\n tw=n kola/sewn dei/cei e(auto\n o(/sion kai\ a)paqh=.
Notes
- The headword is genitive singular of the name of the Indo-Iranian god Mithras. (On Mithras, and Mithraism, see generally Roger Beck in OCD(4) s.v.) It must be quoted from somewhere: there are instances in e.g. Plutarch, Alexander 30.8 (Dareios invokes 'the great light of Mithras') but the present one appears to come from Gregory of Nazianzus' speech 1 Against Julian. Both of the quotations here -- the first of them also in other lexica (see the references at Photius mu446 Theodoridis) -- come from ps.-Nonnus, Scholia mythologica, on Greg.Naz.(PG 36.1009d and 989d).
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- coding — Catharine Roth
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- modified headword; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth