Προτόνιον
protonion
Translated by Catharine Roth8 Oct 2013Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] a small outer-garment, which a priestess wears. It is transferred from the priestess to the man slaughtering. It was called protonion because Pandora was the first with her sisters1 to prepare garments from wool for humans.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Προτόνιον· ἱματίδιον, ὃ ἱέρεια ἀμφιέννυται. ἐπιτίθεται δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς ἱερείας τῷ σφάττοντι. προτόνιον δὲ ἐκλήθη, ὅτι πρώτη Πανδώρα μετὰ τῶν ἀδελφῶν κατεσκεύασε τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τὴν ἐκ τῶν ἐρίων ἐσθῆτα.
Betacode
*proto/nion: i(mati/dion, o(\ i(e/reia a)mfie/nnutai. e)piti/qetai de\ a)po\ th=s i(erei/as tw=| sfa/ttonti. proto/nion de\ e)klh/qh, o(/ti prw/th *pandw/ra meta\ tw=n a)delfw=n kateskeu/ase toi=s a)nqrw/pois th\n e)k tw=n e)ri/wn e)sqh=ta.
Notes (1)
- = Photius, Lexicon pi1407 Theodoridis (but see below); and cf. Pollux 10.191 where protonion is included in a list of temple accoutrements, perhaps garments.
- 1So here, but Photius' original has Pandrosos (pi 182), also mentioned by Pollux. The discrepancy could be put down to a simple error on the Suda compiler's part if the 'Pandora' he meant was the primal Eve-figure of that name, whose eponymous box or jar let loose the world's evils (see in brief OCD4 s.v.). However, more probably this is a conscious correction within the scope of specifically Athenian mythology: a change from Pandrosos one of the daughters of Kekrops to Pandora one of the daughters of Erechtheus. ↩
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- coding — David Whitehead
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- augmented n.1 — David Whitehead
- expanded note — Catharine Roth
- augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth