Τελετή
ritual
Translated by Ross Scaife ✝28 May 2002Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τελετή· θυσία μυστηριώδης. ἡ μεγίστη καὶ τιμιωτέρα. ἀπὸ τῶν γινομένων εἰς αὐτὰς δαπανημάτων· τελεῖν γάρ φαμεν τὸ δαπανᾶν. καὶ πολυτελεῖς, τοὺς πολλὰ ἀναλίσκοντας· καὶ εὐτελεῖς, τοὺς ὀλίγα.
Betacode
*teleth/: qusi/a musthriw/dhs. h( megi/sth kai\ timiwte/ra. a)po\ tw=n ginome/nwn ei)s au)ta\s dapanhma/twn: telei=n ga/r famen to\ dapana=n. kai\ polutelei=s, tou\s polla\ a)nali/skontas: kai\ eu)telei=s, tou\s o)li/ga.
Notes (2)
- cf. tau 270.
- 1Same or similar gloss in other lexica, and in a scholion on Aristophanes, Peace 413. ↩
- 2From Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 2.40E [2.12 Kaibel]; cf. Orus quoted in Etymologicum Genuinum and Etymologicum Magnum. ↩
Linked from5 entries
- λ867Λύσιοι τελεταίdeliverance rites, deliverance rituals[Meaning] those of Dionysos. For when [the] Boeotians had been defeated by [the] Thracians and had fled into Trophonius' [domain], he appeared in a dream and said that Dionysos would be their helper; [so] they got…
- μ1485Μυστήριαmysteries[Meaning] rites. Mysteries received their name because the hearers keep their mouth shut and report these matters to noone; mu/ein means to close the mouth.
- σ1776Σχέδιοιclose, casual, temporary, off-hand, random[Meaning ones which are] cheap/easily-acquired.
- τ259Τελεσθῆναιto have been accomplished[Meaning] to have been spent. So Antiphon [sc. uses the word].
- τ270Τελεῖνto fulfill, to pay[Meaning] to accomplish, to perform; or the [verb that means] to spend. Whence also teleth/ [sacrifice/mystery rite].
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Revision history5 revisions · last 15 Jan 2015
- expanded a ref — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded notes, cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- note — David Whitehead
- added note and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ross Scaife ✝