Πυανεψιῶνος

of Pyanepsion

Translated by David Whitehead18 Dec 2000Vetting: high7 revisions

4 notes · 89 words
Name of a month.1
Also2 [sc. attested is] Pyanopsia. Lycurgus in the [speech] Against Me[ne]saichmos [writes]: "and we ourselves call this festival Pyanopsia, but the other Greeks [call it] Panopsia, because they know that all [pa/ntas] the crops are in view [e)n o)/yei]".3 They say that the Pyanepsia [festival] is celebrated, for Apollo, on the seventh of Pyanepsion. And they say that one ought to speak of [the] Pyanepsia [festival] and the month Pyanepsion: for they boil beans [pu/ana ... e(/yousin] in them, and the fruited branch is carried.4

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πυανεψιῶνος· ὄνομα μηνός. καὶ Πυανοψία· Λυκοῦργος ἐν τῇ κατὰ Μεσαίχμου. καὶ ἡμεῖς Πυανοψίαν ταύτην τὴν ἑορτὴν καλοῦμεν, οἱ δὲ ἄλλοι Ἕλληνες Πανοψίαν, ὅτι πάντας εἶδον τοὺς καρποὺς τῇ ὄψει. Πυανεψιῶνος δὲ ὅτι ἑβδόμῃ τὰ Πυανέψια Ἀπόλλωνι ἄγεσθαι φασί. δεῖν δὲ φασὶ λέγειν Πυανέψια καὶ τὸν μῆνα Πυανεψιῶνα· πύανα γὰρ ἕψουσιν ἐν αὐτοῖς, καὶ ἡ εἰρεσιώνη ἄγεται.

Betacode
*puaneyiw=nos: o)/noma mhno/s. kai\ *puanoyi/a: *lukou=rgos e)n th=| kata\ *mesai/xmou. kai\ h(mei=s *puanoyi/an tau/thn th\n e(orth\n kalou=men, oi( de\ a)/lloi *(/ellhnes *panoyi/an, o(/ti pa/ntas ei)=don tou\s karpou\s th=| o)/yei. *puaneyiw=nos de\ o(/ti e(bdo/mh| ta\ *puane/yia *)apo/llwni a)/gesqai fasi/. dei=n de\ fasi\ le/gein *puane/yia kai\ to\n mh=na *puaneyiw=na: pu/ana ga\r e(/yousin e)n au)toi=s, kai\ h( ei)resiw/nh a)/getai.

Notes (4)

  1. OCD(4) 1243.
  2. 1Here in the genitive case, evidently quoted from somewhere. More fully in other lexica; references at Photius pi1500 Theodoridis. ↩
  3. 2The source now becomes Harpokration s.v., via Photius pi1498. See also Photius pi1499. ↩
  4. 3Lycurgus fr. 83 Conomis. ↩
  5. 4See epsiloniota 184. ↩

References


H.W. Parke, Festivals of the Athenians (London 1977) chap.5

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Revision history7 revisions · last 3 Apr 2015
  1. typo — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  6. added cross-reference — Catharine Roth
  7. cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth
  8. Translated — David Whitehead

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