Μειαγωγία
lamb-bringing
Translated by David Whitehead7 Dec 2000Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
Also [sc. attested is] 'lamb-bringer', [meaning] he who is bringing [it] in. Apollodoros in his [volumes] On gods [writes] that "phratry-members, wishing to be allotted bigger portions, used to stand and shout that it must be killed, 'for it is less'."1 [The verb] to be a lamb-bringer is to donate the lamb to the phratry-members.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μειαγωγία. καὶ Μειαγωγός, ὁ εἰσάγων. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν τοῖς περὶ θεῶν· ὅτι οἱ φράτορες, ἵνα μείζους νέμωνται μερίδας, ἐπεφώνουν ἑστῶτες, κτανεῖν δεῖ· ὃς μεῖον γάρ ἐστι. μειαγωγῆσαι δέ ἐστι τὸ ἐπιδοῦναι τοῖς φράτορσι τὸ μεῖον.
Betacode
*meiagwgi/a. kai\ *meiagwgo/s, o( ei)sa/gwn. *)apollo/dwros e)n toi=s peri\ qew=n: o(/ti oi( fra/tores, i(/na mei/zous ne/mwntai meri/das, e)pefw/noun e(stw=tes, ktanei=n dei=: o(\s mei=on ga/r e)sti. meiagwgh=sai de/ e)sti to\ e)pidou=nai toi=s fra/torsi to\ mei=on.
Notes (1)
- 1FGrH 244 F108. The fragment has become textually garbled since its appearance in Harpokration s.v. meion (cf. mu 849). In place of
ktanei=n , "it must be killed", readi(sta/nein , "it must be weighed". In any event the etymological point of the entry is that the word which came, in this context, to mean a lamb actually means "less".
See also mu 827, mu 828. ↩
Linked from4 entries
- μ827Μειαγωγεῖνto lamb-bring[Meaning] to furnish less. Also [sc. attested is the related neuter noun] meiagwgei=on.
- μ828Μειαγωγήσουσι τὴν τραγῳδίανthey will lamb-bring the tragedy; they will weigh the tragedyIf anyone introduced his son, having come of age, to his phratry-members, a sacrificial victim was presented in a weight prescribed as the one that had to be met, and bringing less was not permitted. When the victim was…
- μ849Μεῖονlamb['lamb'] and 'lamb-bringer'. Isaeus in the [speech] In reply to Stratocles says: "a lamb appeared". It is a sacrifice which those who were introducing their sons to their fellow phatry-members used to provide for them.…
- μ851Μεῖονlamb, meion[A term for] the victim sacrificed on behalf of boys being enrolled amongst their phratry-members, not exhibited [as] greater than a certain weight; even if it were greater, the phratry-members would cry 'meion' at it;…
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