Τριτόμηνις

third-of-the-month

Translated by David Whitehead21 Dec 2000Vetting: high3 revisions

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They used to call the third [day] of a month third-of-the-month. Athena seems to have been born then. Istros says that she is referred to as Tritogeneia, and is considered the same as the moon.1

Greek original · Adler’s text

Τριτόμηνις· τὴν τρίτην τοῦ μηνὸς τριτομήνιδα ἐκάλουν. δοκεῖ δὲ γεγενῆσθαι τότε ἡ Ἀθηνᾶ. Ἴστρος δὲ καὶ Τριτογένειαν αὐτήν φησι λέγεσθαι, τὴν αὐτὴν τῇ σελήνῃ νομιζομένην.

Betacode
*trito/mhnis: th\n tri/thn tou= mhno\s tritomh/nida e)ka/loun. dokei= de\ gegenh=sqai to/te h( *)aqhna=. *)/istros de\ kai\ *tritoge/neian au)th/n fhsi le/gesqai, th\n au)th\n th=| selh/nh| nomizome/nhn.

Notes (1)

  1. Abridged from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v., glossing Lycurgus fr. 48 Conomis.
  2. 1Istros FGrH 334 F2; cf. tau 1019, tau 1020. For the (numerous) other ways of explaining the name Tritogeneia see LSJ s.v. ↩

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τ1019ΤριτογένειαTritogeneiaτ1020ΤριτογενήςTritogenesτ1021Τριτόμηνιςthird-of-the-monthτ1022Τρίτον ἡμίδραχμονthird half-drachmaτ1023ΤριτοπάτορεςTritopatores, Tritopatreis
Revision history3 revisions · last 14 Jul 2011
  1. tweaks — David Whitehead
  2. more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  3. added cross-references, set status — Catharine Roth
  4. Translated — David Whitehead

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