Πραξιδίκη
Penalty-Exacter, Punisher
Translated by David Whitehead25 Oct 2001Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
A deity,1 whose head alone is venerated.2 Mnaseas in his [treatise] On Europe [says] that Soter and his sister Praxidike ['Penalty-Exacter'] had a son Ktesios and daughters Homonoia and Arete, who were called Penalty-Exacters after their mother.3 Dionysios in Foundations [sc. says that it was] daughters of Ogygos -- Alkomeneia, Thelxineia, Aulis -- who were afterwards named Penalty-Exacters.4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πραξιδίκη· θεός, ἧς κεφαλὴν μόνον ἱδρύοντο. Μνασέας δὲ ἐν τῷ περὶ Εὐρώπης Σωτῆρος καὶ τῆς ἀδελφῆς Πραξιδίκης γενέσθαι Κτήσιον υἱὸν καὶ θυγατέρας Ὁμόνοιαν καὶ Ἀρετήν, ἃς ἀπὸ τῆς μητρὸς Πραξιδίκας κληθῆναι. Διονύσιος δὲ ἐν Κτίσεσιν Ὠγύγου θυγατέρας, Ἀλκομένειαν, Θελξίνειαν, Αὐλίδα, ἃς ὕστερον Πραξιδίκας ὀνομασθῆναι.
Betacode
*pracidi/kh: qeo/s, h(=s kefalh\n mo/non i(dru/onto. *mnase/as de\ e)n tw=| peri\ *eu)rw/phs *swth=ros kai\ th=s a)delfh=s *pracidi/khs gene/sqai *kth/sion ui(o\n kai\ qugate/ras *(omo/noian kai\ *)areth/n, a(\s a)po\ th=s mhtro\s *pracidi/kas klhqh=nai. *dionu/sios de\ e)n *kti/sesin *)wgu/gou qugate/ras, *)alkome/neian, *qelci/neian, *au)li/da, a(\s u(/steron *pracidi/kas o)nomasqh=nai.
Notes (4)
- Same entry in Photius (pi1139 Theodoridis), similar one elsewhere.
For sources other than the ones cited here (e.g. Pausanias 3.22.2) see LSJ s.v. - 1Female, as the headword shows (and the entry proceeds to explain). ↩
- 2In LSJ s.v. this is taken to mean 'represented with a bare head'. ↩
- 3Mnaseas of Patrai (C3 BCE) fr.17 FHG (3.152). ↩
- 4Dionysios of Chalkis [Myth, Place] (?C4 BCE) fr.3 FHG (4.394). For Ogygos cf. omega 12, omega 13. ↩
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- tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- more notes; another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
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- added missing note number, x-refs, more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Revised — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead