Ὦ νῦν θερμοὶ βωμοί
o altars now hot
Translated by David Whitehead31 Dec 2003Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to things that enthusiasm brings about. Aristophanes in Lemnian Women [write]: "the mightiest goddess, whose altar is now hot".1 He is intimating that amongst the Athenians some foreign gods were constantly being honoured.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὦ νῦν θερμοὶ βωμοί· ἐπὶ τῶν διὰ σπουδῆς τυγχανόντων. Ἀριστοφάνης δὲ ἐν Λημνίαις· τὴν κρατίστην δαίμονα, ἧς νῦν θερμὸς ἔσθ' ὁ βωμός. μηνύσει, ὅτι ἀεί τινες παρὰ τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις ξένοι θεοὶ ἐτιμῶντο.
Betacode
*)=w nu=n qermoi\ bwmoi/: e)pi\ tw=n dia\ spoudh=s tugxano/ntwn. *)aristofa/nhs de\ e)n *lhmni/ais: th\n krati/sthn dai/mona, h(=s nu=n qermo\s e)/sq' o( bwmo/s. mhnu/sei, o(/ti a)ei/ tines para\ toi=s *)aqhnai/ois ce/noi qeoi\ e)timw=nto.
Notes (1)
- The character of this entry, with its 'in reference to...' gloss, does suggest that the headword phrase is proverbial. It is not in the standard paroemiographic collections, but compare generally Eunapius, Lives of the Sophists 3.1.3,
tou/tou *Plwti/nou qermoi\ bwmoi\ nu=n . - 1Aristophanes fr. 365 Kock, now 381 K.-A. (The goddess in question is probably Artemis, the most important deity on Lemnos.) ↩
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Revision history5 revisions · last 22 Dec 2014
- Revised — David Whitehead
- cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- another note — David Whitehead
- augmented n.1 — David Whitehead
- cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead