Θαργήλια

Thargelia

Translated by Catharine Roth16 Feb 2008Vetting: high4 revisions

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A festival of Artemis and of Apollo. [There is] also a month [called] Thargelion. And the pot full of seeds of the sacred mash; for they used to boil in it to the god the first-fruits of the crops which had appeared, named from heating [qe/rein] the earth [gh=], who is the same as the sun. Choruses took place in it [the festival]. And [sc. there is a saying] "a Thargelia of good things."1

Greek original · Adler’s text

Θαργήλια· ἑορτὴ Ἀρτέμιδος καὶ Ἀπόλλωνος. καὶ μὴν Θαργηλιών. καὶ ὁ τῶν σπερμάτων μεστὸς χύτρος ἱεροῦ ἑψέματος. ἥψουν δ' ἐν αὐτῇ ἀπαρχὰς τῷ θεῷ τῶν πεφηνότων καρπῶν, ὀνομαζόμενον ἀπὸ τοῦ θέρειν τὴν γῆν, τὸν αὐτὸν ὄντα τῷ ἡλίῳ. ἵσταντο δὲ ἐν αὐτῇ καὶ χοροί. καὶ ἀγαθῶν Θαργήλια.

Betacode
*qargh/lia: e(orth\ *)arte/midos kai\ *)apo/llwnos. kai\ mh\n *qarghliw/n. kai\ o( tw=n sperma/twn mesto\s xu/tros i(erou= e(ye/matos. h(/youn d' e)n au)th=| a)parxa\s tw=| qew=| tw=n pefhno/twn karpw=n, o)nomazo/menon a)po\ tou= qe/rein th\n gh=n, to\n au)to\n o)/nta tw=| h(li/w|. i(/stanto de\ e)n au)th=| kai\ xoroi/. kai\ a)gaqw=n *qargh/lia.

Notes (1)

  1. Same entry -- apart from the final sentence -- in Photius (Lexicon theta22); similar ones in Hesychius and elsewhere. See also theta 50.
  2. 1This saying, for which cf. generically theta 60, is not in the paroemiographers. ↩

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θ47Θαρραλέονbold, of good courageθ48Θαρραλέοςbold, of good courageθ49ΘαργήλιαThargeliaθ50ΘαργήλιαThargeliaθ51ΘαργηλίαThargelia
Revision history4 revisions · last 5 Oct 2018
  1. tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
  2. coding — David Whitehead
  3. tweaking — David Whitehead
  4. augmented n.2 and keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
  5. Translated — Catharine Roth

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