Τρίποδα
tripod
Translated by David Whitehead19 May 2011Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
A basin at Delphi placed on a tripod, oracular of Apollo.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τρίποδα· λέβητα ἐν Δελφοῖς ἐπὶ τρίποδα κείμενον μαντικὸν Ἀπόλλωνος.
Betacode
*tri/poda: le/bhta e)n *delfoi=s e)pi\ tri/poda kei/menon mantiko\n *)apo/llwnos.
Notes
- Same or similar entries in other lexica. The headword is accusative case; either it is quoted from somewhere or else simply extracted from the entry itself (which cannot strictly speaking be a gloss on the headword).
cf. under epsilon 2614; and generally tau 1003.
Linked from3 entries
- τ15Τάδε ἐκ τοῦ τρίποδοςthese things [come] out of the tripod[sc. This proverbial phrase] is asserted in reference to absolutely true things: that the Delphic [sc. god] had sexual intercourse with Aristoklea when she became the Pythia, and from her prophecies, to signify that the…
- τ1002Τρίποςtripod"Either a tripod or a woman". [Tripos is a variant of] tripous. Also [sc. attested is] anthrakion, [meaning] a short tripod in Alexis.
- τ1003ΤρίπουςtripodIssuing oracles in accordance with the three times: present, past, future.
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Revision history4 revisions · last 7 Oct 2022
- typo — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- another x-ref — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead