Ὁμολώϊος
Homoloios
Translated by David Whitehead2 Feb 2007Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[An epithet of] Zeus in Thebes and in other Boeotian city-states and in Thessaly; [the name comes] from the expoundress1 Homoloa, the daughter of Enyis; she was sent as expoundress to Delphi, as Aristophanes [says] in book 2 of his History of Thebes.2 But Istros in the twelfth book of his Collection [says that the name arose] because of the fact that amongst Aeolians concord and peacefulness is called homolon.3 There is also a Demeter Homoloia in Thebes.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὁμολώϊος· Ζεὺς ἐν Θήβαις καὶ ἐν ἄλλαις πόλεσι Βοιωτικαῖς καὶ ἐν Θεσσαλίᾳ· ἀπὸ Ὁμολῴας προφήτιδος, τῆς Ἐνυέως· ἣν προφῆτιν εἰς Δελφοὺς πεμφθῆναι, ὡς Ἀριστοφάνης ἐν βʹ Θηβαϊκῶν. Ἴστρος δὲ ἐν τῇ δωδεκάτῃ τῆς Συναγωγῆς, διὰ τὸ παρ' Αἰολεῦσι τὸ ὁμονοητικὸν καὶ εἰρηνικὸν ὅμολον λέγεσθαι. ἔστι δὲ καὶ Δημήτηρ Ὁμολωΐα ἐν Θήβαις.
Betacode
*(omolw/i+os: *zeu\s e)n *qh/bais kai\ e)n a)/llais po/lesi *boiwtikai=s kai\ e)n *qessali/a|: a)po\ *(omolw/|as profh/tidos, th=s *)enue/ws: h(\n profh=tin ei)s *delfou\s pemfqh=nai, w(s *)aristofa/nhs e)n b# *qhbai+kw=n. *)/istros de\ e)n th=| dwdeka/th| th=s *sunagwgh=s, dia\ to\ par' *ai)oleu=si to\ o(monohtiko\n kai\ ei)rhniko\n o(/molon le/gesqai. e)/sti de\ kai\ *dhmh/thr *(omolwi/+a e)n *qh/bais.
Notes (3)
- Also in Photius (omicron298 Theodoridis); cf. e.g. Hesychius omicron777, Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Homole; Apostolius 12.67.
- 1Of Apollo in this case; a.k.a. the Pythia (pi 3127, pi 3129, pi 3137, pi 3138). ↩
- 2FGrH 379 F2 -- i.e. rejecting the suggestion of Thomas Reinesius (1587-1667), applauded by Adler, that the Suda's 'Aristophanes' is a mistake for Aristodemus (FGrH 383). ↩
- 3FGrH 334 F5. ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 3 Apr 2014
- expanded n.2 — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- added missing note number; augmented notes and keywords — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead