Σαβάζιος
Sabazios, Sabazius
Translated by Alex Gottesman16 Apr 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
He is the same [sc. god] as Dionysos.1 He acquired this form of address from the rite pertaining to him; for the barbarians call the bacchic cry "sabazein". Hence some of the Greeks too follow suit and call the cry "sabasmos"; thereby Dionysos [becomes] Sabazios. They also used to call "saboi" those places that had been dedicated to him and his Bacchants.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σαβάζιος· ὁ αὐτός ἐστι τῷ Διονύσῳ. ἔτυχε δὲ τῆς προσηγορίας ταύτης παρὰ τὸν γινόμενον περὶ αὐτὸν θειασμόν· τὸ γὰρ εὐάζειν οἱ βάρβαροι σαβάζειν φασίν. ὅθεν καὶ τῶν Ἑλλήνων τινὲς ἀκολουθοῦντες τὸν εὐασμὸν σαβασμὸν λέγουσιν· ἔνθεν Σαβάζιος ὁ Διόνυσος. σάβους ἔλεγον καὶ τοὺς ἀφιερωμένους αὐτῷ τόπους καὶ τοὺς Βάκχους αὐτοῦ.
Betacode
*saba/zios: o( au)to/s e)sti tw=| *dionu/sw|. e)/tuxe de\ th=s proshgori/as tau/ths para\ to\n gino/menon peri\ au)to\n qeiasmo/n: to\ ga\r eu)a/zein oi( ba/rbaroi saba/zein fasi/n. o(/qen kai\ tw=n *(ellh/nwn tine\s a)kolouqou=ntes to\n eu)asmo\n sabasmo\n le/gousin: e)/nqen *saba/zios o( *dio/nusos. sa/bous e)/legon kai\ tou\s a)fierwme/nous au)tw=| to/pous kai\ tou\s *ba/kxous au)tou=.
Notes (1)
- Drawn from the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 873, where the headword occurs in the dative case; cf. those to Lysistrata 388 (Sabazioi), and Etymologicum Magnum 707.14.
See also sigma 12 (and cf. sigma 4). - 1Rather, a deity with some Dionysos-like attributes. See in brief Robert Parker in OCD4 s.v. (p.1302). ↩
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- coding — Catharine Roth
- updated a ref — David Whitehead
- typo — Catharine Roth
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
- another x-ref — David Whitehead
- modified headword and translation; added notes and keyword — David Whitehead
- Translated — Alex Gottesman