Ταινάριον κακόν

Tainarian evil

Translated by David Whitehead26 Apr 2003Vetting: high5 revisions

2 notes · 29 words
[Meaning] a large and unlawful [one] affecting suppliants; for the Spartans killed the Helots who had fled into Tainaron.1
Also [sc. attested is] Tainarite, [meaning] the citizen [of Tainaron].2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ταινάριον κακόν· τὸ μέγα καὶ παρανομούμενον εἰς ἱκέτας· οἱ γὰρ Λακεδαιμόνιοι καταφυγόντας τοὺς Εἵλωτας εἰς Ταίναρον ἀπέκτειναν. καὶ Ταιναρίτης, ὁ πολίτης.

Betacode
*taina/rion kako/n: to\ me/ga kai\ paranomou/menon ei)s i(ke/tas: oi( ga\r *lakedaimo/nioi katafugo/ntas tou\s *ei(/lwtas ei)s *tai/naron a)pe/kteinan. kai\ *tainari/ths, o( poli/ths.

Notes (2)

  1. Apostolius 15.94, etc.
  2. 1For this notorious episode see under tau 206. For Tainaron and its homonymous temple (and Cape: present-day Matapan) at the southern-most extremity of the Peloponnese see Barrington Atlas Map 58 grid C5. ↩
  3. 2Tainaron, never a polis, could never have had 'citizens'. See rather Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Tainaros (sic), where plural Tainaritai appears in a quotation and cannot be pressed to mean anything more than residents. ↩

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Revision history5 revisions · last 7 Jan 2014
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. expanded and rearranged notes; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  3. more keywords — David Whitehead
  4. augmented notes and keywords — David Whitehead
  5. set status — Catharine Roth
  6. Translated — David Whitehead

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