Περίψημα
offscouring, scapegoat
Translated by Catharine Roth4 Jan 2012Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a] fragment; or [something that everyone treads] under foot;1 or ransoming. So they used to say in connection with the [youth] annually [cast into the sea for relief] from the prevailing evils: "be an offscouring of us": that is, salvation and redemption. And thus they used to throw [him] into the sea, as if paying a sacrifice to Poseidon.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Περίψημα· κάταγμα· ἢ ὑπὸ τὰ ἴχνη· ἢ ἀπολύτρωσις. οὕτως ἐπέλεγον τῷ κατ' ἐνιαυτόν .... συνεχόντων κακῶν· περίψημα ἡμῶν γενοῦ. ἤτοι σωτηρία καὶ ἀπολύτρωσις· καὶ οὕτως ἐνέβαλλον τῇ θαλάσσῃ, ὡσανεὶ τῷ Ποσειδῶνι θυσίαν ἀποτιννύντες.
Betacode
*peri/yhma: ka/tagma: h)\ u(po\ ta\ i)/xnh: h)\ a)polu/trwsis. ou(/tws e)pe/legon tw=| kat' e)niauto/n .... sunexo/ntwn kakw=n: peri/yhma h(mw=n genou=. h)/toi swthri/a kai\ a)polu/trwsis: kai\ ou(/tws e)ne/ballon th=| qala/ssh|, w(sanei\ tw=| *poseidw=ni qusi/an a)potinnu/ntes.
Notes (1)
- The headword is a neuter noun connected with pi 1354.
Same entry in Photius, Lexicon pi800 Theodoridis, whence this translation is supplemented, for the lacuna betweenkat' e)niauto/n andsunexo/ntwn kakw=n ); and see also e.g. Lexica Segueriana 341.9-14, Hesychius pi1960, and Gloss. sacr. ed. Alberti: from commentary on 1 Corinthians 4.13, where the phrasepa/ntwn peri/yhma occurs (web address 1). - 1The full version of this phrase is explicit in the paroemiographer Michael Apostolius (14.22). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history4 revisions · last 28 Aug 2021
- tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
- coding; my typo — David Whitehead
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth