Ὀργεῶνες
orgeones
Translated by D. Graham J. Shipley26 Oct 2002Vetting: high11 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] those who 'orgize' to privately established gods. To 'orgize' is to perform the 'orgia' of the gods, that is, mysteries1 and usages. [Book] 4 of Laws [says]: "No internal acquisition of shrines in private houses. He that is shown to have acquired additional ones and to be "orgizing", other than the public [cults]."2 Seleukos in his Memorandum of Solon's Axones3 says that those holding gatherings about certain heroes or gods are called orgeones. Then, by transference, they call the priests by this name too. At any rate Antimachos in Lyde [writes]: "by descent Kabarnians, he made them renowned orgeones".4 Similarly Aeschylus in Mysians, addressing the priest of Kaikos: "Hail, first orgeon of the river Kaikos, may you save the masters with Paionian prayers".5 About the orgeones Philochoros, too, has written:6 "compulsory for the phratores to accept both the orgeones and the homogalaktes, whom we call gennetai".7
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὀργεῶνες· οἱ τοῖς ἰδίᾳ ἀφιδρυμένοις θεοῖς ὀργιάζοντες. ὀργιάζειν δέ ἐστι τὰ τῶν θεῶν ὄργια τελεῖν, τουτέστι μυστήρια καὶ νόμιμα. Νόμων δʹ· μὴ κεκτῆσθαι ἔσω ἐν ἰδίαις οἰκίαις ἱερά. τὸν δὲ φανέντα κεκτημένον ἕτερα καὶ ὀργιάζοντα πλὴν τὰ δημόσια. Σέλευκος δ' ἐν τῷ ὑπομνήματι τῶν Σόλωνος Ἀξόνων ὀργεῶνάς φησι καλεῖσθαι τοὺς συλλόγους ἔχοντας περί τινας ἥρωας ἢ θεούς. ἤδη δὲ μεταφέροντες καὶ τοὺς ἱερέας οὕτω καλοῦσιν. ὁ γοῦν Ἀντίμαχος ἐν τῇ Λύδῃ· γενεᾷ Καβάρνους θῆκεν ἀβακλέας ὀργεῶνας. καὶ οἷον ὁ Αἰσχύλος ἐν Μυσοῖς, τὸν ἱερέα τοῦ Καΐκου προσαγορεύων· ποταμοῦ Καΐκου χαῖρε πρῶτος ὀργεών, εὐχαῖς δὲ σώσοις δεσπότας παιωνίαις. περὶ δὲ τῶν ὀργεώνων γέγραφε καὶ Φιλόχορος· τοὺς δὲ φράτορας ἐπάναγκες δέχεσθαι καὶ τοὺς ὀργεῶνας καὶ τοὺς ὁμογάλακτας, οὓς γεννήτας καλοῦμεν.
Betacode
*)orgew=nes: oi( toi=s i)di/a| a)fidrume/nois qeoi=s o)rgia/zontes. o)rgia/zein de/ e)sti ta\ tw=n qew=n o)/rgia telei=n, toute/sti musth/ria kai\ no/mima. *no/mwn d#: mh\ kekth=sqai e)/sw e)n i)di/ais oi)ki/ais i(era/. to\n de\ fane/nta kekthme/non e(/tera kai\ o)rgia/zonta plh\n ta\ dhmo/sia. *se/leukos d' e)n tw=| u(pomnh/mati tw=n *so/lwnos *)aco/nwn o)rgew=na/s fhsi kalei=sqai tou\s sullo/gous e)/xontas peri/ tinas h(/rwas h)\ qeou/s. h)/dh de\ metafe/rontes kai\ tou\s i(ere/as ou(/tw kalou=sin. o( gou=n *)anti/maxos e)n th=| *lu/dh|: genea=| *kaba/rnous qh=ken a)bakle/as o)rgew=nas. kai\ oi(=on o( *ai)sxu/los e)n *musoi=s, to\n i(ere/a tou= *kai/+kou prosagoreu/wn: potamou= *kai/+kou xai=re prw=tos o)rgew/n, eu)xai=s de\ sw/sois despo/tas paiwni/ais. peri\ de\ tw=n o)rgew/nwn ge/grafe kai\ *filo/xoros: tou\s de\ fra/toras e)pa/nagkes de/xesqai kai\ tou\s o)rgew=nas kai\ tou\s o(moga/laktas, ou(\s gennh/tas kalou=men.
Notes (7)
- See also omicron 509, omicron 510, omicron 512. The present entry is also in Photius (Lexicon omicron439 Theodoridis, with other references there).
- 1cf. omicron 515. ↩
- 2Actually Book 10, section 910B, of Plato's Laws (web address 1, cf. omicron 516). Possibly delta here stands for
deka/tw| , 'tenth' (so Ruhnken), rather than for numeric '4'. ↩ - 3FGrH 341 F1. (For Seleukos see generally sigma 200.) ↩
- 4Antimachus [alpha 2681] fr.67 Wyss (and West), line 1. Elsewhere this is quoted with
e)/nqa instead ofgene/a| ando)rgeiw=nas instead ofo)rgew=nas , making a hexameter. ↩ - 5Aeschylus fr. 413a (144 Radt), lines 6-7. (For the river Kaikos, cf. kappa 1166.) ↩
- 6FGrH 328 F35a. ↩
- 7These obscure kinship (or fictive kinship) groups of classical Athens are discussed by Andrewes 1961 and Lambert 1998; cf. gamma 147. ↩
References
Andrewes, A. (1961), 'Philochoros on phratries', Journal of Hellenic Studies, 81: 1-15
P. Foucart, Les Associations religieuses chez les Grecs, Paris 1873
M. Guarducci, Orgeones e tiasoti, Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione classica 13 (1935) 332-340
W.S. Ferguson, The Attic Orgeones, "Harvard Theological Review" 37 (1944) 73-79
N.I. Pantazopoulos, Orgeones. Paratereseis eis ta neotera epigraphica euremata kai tas pegas katholou tou Attikou somateiakou dikaiou, Polemon 3 (1948) 97-128
S.D. Lambert, The Phratries of Attica, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1993
Y. Ustinova, Orgeones in Phratries: a mechanism of social integration in Attica, Kernos 9 (1996) 227-242
R.C.T. Parker, s.v. Orgeones in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Eds. S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth (New York 1996), 1074
N.F. Jones, The Associations of Classical Athens: The Response to Democracy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999
P. Foucart, Les Associations religieuses chez les Grecs, Paris 1873
M. Guarducci, Orgeones e tiasoti, Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione classica 13 (1935) 332-340
W.S. Ferguson, The Attic Orgeones, "Harvard Theological Review" 37 (1944) 73-79
N.I. Pantazopoulos, Orgeones. Paratereseis eis ta neotera epigraphica euremata kai tas pegas katholou tou Attikou somateiakou dikaiou, Polemon 3 (1948) 97-128
S.D. Lambert, The Phratries of Attica, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1993
Y. Ustinova, Orgeones in Phratries: a mechanism of social integration in Attica, Kernos 9 (1996) 227-242
R.C.T. Parker, s.v. Orgeones in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Eds. S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth (New York 1996), 1074
N.F. Jones, The Associations of Classical Athens: The Response to Democracy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from7 entries
- γ147Γεννῆταιclan-members, clansmenThose belonging to the same clan [genos]. For the citizens of Athens used to be divided into parts, and the largest parts were called tribes [phylai], and each tribe was in turn divided into three, of which each part…
- ι160Ἱέρατοwas a priestPluperfect [when written] with omicron [as the final vowel]. But i(era/tw [sc. with omega] [means] let him celebrate mysteries in accordance with custom and let him sacrifice; for the sacrificers [are] orgeones.
- ο509Ὀργεῶνof cultsMeaning of cult-members. Lysias [sc. says this].
- ο510Ὀργεῶνεςorgeones[Meaning] the [sc. priests] in charge of sacrificing.
- ο512Ὀργεῶναςcult-membersThere is a speech of Isaeus to cult-members. Cult-members [o)rgew=nes] are those coming together to honor gods or heroes; for [the verb] o)rgia/zein is sacrificing and seeing the customary acts - either from stretching…
- ο515Ὄργιαsecret rites[Meaning] mysteries, sacred rites. "Straightway it was common for everyone to say that this fellow had celebrated the rites of the Chians' goddess and the ithyphalloi."
- ο516Ὀργιάζωνworshipping[Meaning someone who is] sacrificing, celebrating.
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