Πάνδημος Ἀφροδίτη

Aphrodite Pandemos

Translated by David Whitehead13 Dec 2000Vetting: high4 revisions

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This is what they used to call the [sc. goddess] established near the old agora [sc. in Athens], because of the fact that long ago the people gathered there in assemblies, which they called agorai. Pandemos means common to all.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πάνδημος Ἀφροδίτη· οὕτως ἐκάλουν τὴν ἀφιδρυθεῖσαν περὶ τὴν ἀρχαίαν ἀγορὰν διὰ τὸ ἐνταῦθα πάντα τὸν δῆμον συνάγεσθαι τοπαλαιὸν, ἃς ἐκάλουν ἀγοράς. ἔστι δὲ τὸ πάνδημον πάγκοινον.

Betacode
*pa/ndhmos *)afrodi/th: ou(/tws e)ka/loun th\n a)fidruqei=san peri\ th\n a)rxai/an a)gora\n dia\ to\ e)ntau=qa pa/nta to\n dh=mon suna/gesqai topalaio\n, a(\s e)ka/loun a)gora/s. e)/sti de\ to\ pa/ndhmon pa/gkoinon.

Notes

  1. Abridged from Harpokration s.v. (commenting in the first instance on Hyperides fr. 143 Jensen), where this information is credited to Apollodorus (FGrH 244 F113).

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Neighbouring entries

π173ΠάνδειαPandeia, Pandiaπ174Πανδημείwith all the people, in a massπ175Πάνδημος ἈφροδίτηAphrodite Pandemosπ176Πανδήμουof the whole people, general, vulgarπ177ΠανδιωνίςPandionis
Revision history4 revisions · last 13 Aug 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. expanded note; more keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
  3. more keywords — David Whitehead
  4. Set status — Elizabeth Vandiver
  5. Translated — David Whitehead

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