Τρικέφαλος
three-headed
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Translation
Hermes, in the role of someone teaching [about] the roads and bearing an inscription [indicating] where this road leads, and where that. But perhaps having a head [pointing] towards each road. The person who set up the Three-Headed Hermes, as Philochorus says, [was] Prokleides, a lover of Hipparchos.1
Isaeus in the [speech] On Eukleides [writes]: "a short way up from the three-headed, by the Hestia road".2 In full this is "the Three-Headed Hermes".
Isaeus in the [speech] On Eukleides [writes]: "a short way up from the three-headed, by the Hestia road".2 In full this is "the Three-Headed Hermes".
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τρικέφαλος· ὁ Ἑρμῆς, ὥσπερ διδάσκων τὰς ὁδοὺς καὶ ἔχων ὑπογραφήν, ποῦ μὲν αὕτη φέρει ἡ ὁδός, ποῦ δὲ ἐκείνη. ἴσως δὲ πρὸς ἑκάστην ὁδὸν κεφαλὴν εἶχεν. ἔστι δὲ ὁ ἀναθεὶς τὸν τρικέφαλον Ἑρμῆν, ὡς Φιλόχορός φησι, Προκλείδης Ἱππάρχου ἐραστής. Ἰσαῖος ἐν τῷ περὶ Εὐκλείδου· μικρὸν δ' ἄνω τοῦ Τρικεφάλου, παρὰ τὴν Ἑστίαν ὁδόν. τὸ πλῆρές ἐστι τοῦ τρικεφάλου Ἑρμοῦ.
Betacode
*trike/falos: o( *(ermh=s, w(/sper dida/skwn ta\s o(dou\s kai\ e)/xwn u(pografh/n, pou= me\n au(/th fe/rei h( o(do/s, pou= de\ e)kei/nh. i)/sws de\ pro\s e(ka/sthn o(do\n kefalh\n ei)=xen. e)/sti de\ o( a)naqei\s to\n trike/falon *(ermh=n, w(s *filo/xoro/s fhsi, *proklei/dhs *(ippa/rxou e)rasth/s. *)isai=os e)n tw=| peri\ *eu)klei/dou: mikro\n d' a)/nw tou= *trikefa/lou, para\ th\n *(esti/an o(do/n. to\ plh=re/s e)sti tou= trikefa/lou *(ermou=.
Notes (2)
- Harpokration tau28 Keaney (Philochorus FGrH 328 F22a), recast and expanded.
- 1= Photius, Lexicon tau457 Theodoridis. 'Philochorus' = FGrH 328 F22b. This Hipparchus (C6 BCE) was one of the sons of the tyrant Peisistratos (see under iota 523); he is connected elsewhere with the erection of herms (bearing gnomic wisdom) in Attica. The name of his lover is uncertain: Eukleides, Patrokleides, Prokleides. ↩
- 2Isaeus fr. 59 Sauppe. (But read
pro/s for thisperi/ : In Reply to Eukleides). ↩
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