Παρθένοι
Maidens, Virgins
Translated by James L. P. Butrica ✝21 Feb 2000Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
This is what they used to call the daughters of Erechtheus1 and they honoured them;2 [they were] six in number. The eldest [was] Protogenia, the second Pandora, the third Prokris, the fourth Creusa, the fifth Orithyia, the sixth Chthonia. Of these Protogenia and Pandora are said to have given themselves to be slaughtered on behalf of their country when an army came from Boeotia. They were slaughtered on the hill called Hyacinthus on behalf of the Sphendonians. Hence they are also called the Hyacinthid Maidens, as Phanodemus attests in his fifth Atthis, when recalling the honour shown them, and Phrynichus in Recluse.3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Παρθένοι· τὰς Ἐρεχθέως θυγατέρας οὕτως ἔλεγον καὶ ἐτιμώρησαν δὲ τὸν ἀριθμὸν ἕξ. πρεσβυτάτη μὲν Πρωτογένεια, δευτέρα δὲ Πανδώρα, τρίτη Πρόκρις, τετάρτη Κρέουσα, πέμπτη Ὠρείθυια, ἕκτη Χθονία. τούτων λέγεται Πρωτογένεια καὶ Πανδώρα δοῦναι ἑαυτὰς σφαγῆναι ὑπὲρ τῆς χώρας, στρατιᾶς ἐλθούσης ἐκ Βοιωτίας. ἐσφαγιάσθησαν δὲ ἐν τῷ Ὑακίνθῳ καλουμένῳ πάγῳ ὑπὲρ τῶν Σφενδονίων. διὸ καὶ οὕτως καλοῦνται παρθένοι Ὑακινθίδες, καθάπερ μαρ- τυρεῖ Φανόδημος ἐν τῇ πέμπτῃ Ἀτθίδι, μεμνημένος τῆς τιμῆς αὐτῶν, καὶ Φρύνιχος Μονοτρόπῳ.
Betacode
*parqe/noi: ta\s *)erexqe/ws qugate/ras ou(/tws e)/legon kai\ e)timw/rhsan de\ to\n a)riqmo\n e(/c. presbuta/th me\n *prwtoge/neia, deute/ra de\ *pandw/ra, tri/th *pro/kris, teta/rth *kre/ousa, pe/mpth *)wrei/quia, e(/kth *xqoni/a. tou/twn le/getai *prwtoge/neia kai\ *pandw/ra dou=nai e(auta\s sfagh=nai u(pe\r th=s xw/ras, stratia=s e)lqou/shs e)k *boiwti/as. e)sfagia/sqhsan de\ e)n tw=| *(uaki/nqw| kaloume/nw| pa/gw| u(pe\r tw=n *sfendoni/wn. dio\ kai\ ou(/tws kalou=ntai parqe/noi *(uakinqi/des, kaqa/per mar- turei= *fano/dhmos e)n th=| pe/mpth| *)atqi/di, memnhme/nos th=s timh=s au)tw=n, kai\ *fru/nixos *monotro/pw|.
Notes (3)
- Same entry in Photius (pi408 Theodoridis; cf. n. 2 below); see also Hesychius p925 and the paroemiographer Apostolius (14.7).
- 1See already under pi 666. ↩
- 2Adopting the reading of Photius,
e)ti/mwn h)=san , rather thane)timw/rhsan , which would mean "they took vengeance upon". ↩ - 3Phanodemus FGrH 325 F4; Phrynichus fr. 30 Kock (31 K.-A.). For the Hyacinthids see also Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 4.19.121.2; Demosthenes 60.27; Diodorus Siculus 17.15.2; and Euripides fr. 65 (from the Erechtheus) in Nova fragmenta Euripidea in papyris reperta, ed. Colin Austin. ↩
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Revision history8 revisions · last 17 Sep 2013
- tweaked notes; more keywords — David Whitehead
- another keyword; internal rearrangement — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- corrected betacode — Catharine Roth
- augmented keywords; corrected betacode in note — David Whitehead
- cosmetics, added keyword — Ross Scaife ✝
- added keyword — Catharine Roth
- supplied headwords; added note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — James L. P. Butrica ✝