Πυρεῖον
firepot, firestick
Translated by William Hutton14 Sep 2013Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a] censer.1
"The Greeks left behind firepots and torches giving to Sinon someone who would be a lookout, and he raises the firepots and the beacon to the enemy."2
"Heraclius destroyed the cities and overturned the firepots of the Persians."3
And Sophocles [writes]: "[Neoptolemus [Author, Myth]: ...]along with these firesticks. [Odysseus:] This is that man's treasure-house he is describing."4
Dactylic [words are spelled] with an iota.5
"The Greeks left behind firepots and torches giving to Sinon someone who would be a lookout, and he raises the firepots and the beacon to the enemy."2
"Heraclius destroyed the cities and overturned the firepots of the Persians."3
And Sophocles [writes]: "[Neoptolemus [Author, Myth]: ...]along with these firesticks. [Odysseus:] This is that man's treasure-house he is describing."4
Dactylic [words are spelled] with an iota.5
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πυρεῖον· θυμιατήριον. οἱ δὲ Ἕλληνες κατέλιπον πυρεῖα καὶ δᾷδα, δόντες Σίνωνι σκοπὸν ἐσόμενον· ὁ δὲ τὰ πυρεῖα καὶ τὸν πυρσὸν ἀνίσχει τοῖς πολεμίοις. ὁ δὲ Ἡράκλειος τάς τε πόλεις καθῄρει καὶ τὰ πυρεῖα διέστρεφε τῶν Περσῶν. καὶ Σοφοκλῆς· πυρεῖ' ὁμοῦ τάδε. κείνου τὸ θησαύρισμα σημαίνει τόδε. τὰ δακτυλικὰ διὰ τοῦ ι.
Betacode
*purei=on: qumiath/rion. oi( de\ *(/ellhnes kate/lipon purei=a kai\ da=|da, do/ntes *si/nwni skopo\n e)so/menon: o( de\ ta\ purei=a kai\ to\n purso\n a)ni/sxei toi=s polemi/ois. o( de\ *(hra/kleios ta/s te po/leis kaqh/|rei kai\ ta\ purei=a die/strefe tw=n *persw=n. kai\ *sofoklh=s: purei=' o(mou= ta/de. kei/nou to\ qhsau/risma shmai/nei to/de. ta\ daktulika\ dia\ tou= i.
Notes (5)
- 1= Synagoge pi809; Photius, Lexicon pi1563 Theodoridis; cf. Hesychius pi4413. Adler labels the entry 'gl. sacra', and Theodoridis regards the headword as quoted from Exodus 27.3 LXX. ↩
- 2As Bernhardy recognized, this is apparently from a prose account of the story of the Sack of Troy told from a Trojan point of view (cf. Proclus, Chrestomathy 252-3). Adler suggests Nicolaus of Damascus as a possible author, and reports emendations by Portus and Bernhardy that make Sinon himself the lookout. Sinon was, in any event, the Greek who persuaded the Trojans that the Wooden Horse could safely be taken inside their city; he later become a byword for treachery in Dante and Shakespeare. ↩
- 3An approximation of Nicephorus 15-16 de Boor. Here the 'firepots' refers to shrines in which a sacred flame was tended. ↩
- 4Sophocles, Philoctetes 36-7, but here with
shmai/nei ('he is describing') in place of Sophocles'shmai/neis ('you are describing'). ↩ - 5i.e. rather than the epsiloniota of the headword. This comment has no obvious relevance -- Adler paragraphs accordingly -- to the passage from Sophocles (in iambic trimeters) which immediately precedes it; cf. Herodian, On Orthography 3.2.415. Kuster suggested deleting it. Adler reports that ms M has
zh/tei ('look for') written over the worddaktulika/ . ↩
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Revision history5 revisions · last 28 Dec 2021
- cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
- codings — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- tweaked and expanded notes; more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton