Φιλλεῖδαι

Philleidai, Philleids

Translated by David Whitehead16 Nov 2001Vetting: high5 revisions

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It is a clan [genos] at Athens. Out of its members [comes] the priestess of Demeter and Kore, she who initiates the initiates at Eleusis.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Φιλλεῖδαι· γένος ἐστὶν Ἀθήνησιν· ἐκ δὲ τούτων ἡ ἱέρεια τῆς Δήμητρος καὶ Κόρης, ἡ μύουσα τοὺς μύστας ἐν Ἐλευσῖνι.

Betacode

*fillei=dai: ge/nos e)sti\n *)aqh/nhsin: e)k de\ tou/twn h( i(e/reia th=s *dh/mhtros kai\ *ko/rhs, h( mu/ousa tou\s mu/stas e)n *)eleusi=ni.

= Photius phi179 Theodoridis (from the Epitome of Harpokration); cf. Etymologicum Magnum 793.45 (opening phrase only).
Kevin Clinton, The Sacred Officials of the Eleusinian Mysteries (Philadelphia 1972) 76; Robert Parker, Athenian Religion (Oxford 1996) 317.

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