Pandora

Pandora englannista suomeksi

1. Pandora

1. Pandora

Pandora englanniksi

1. (taxon)

2. The first woman on earth, who had been given a box by the gods and instructed not to open it, but who disobeyed the instructions out of curiosity, releasing all manner of evils into the world.

3. A moon of the planet Saturn.

4. (w), a main belt asteroid.

5. Pandora

6. (l)

7. (ja-romanization of)

8. (l)

9. (rfdate), Gaius Plinius Secundus, ''Naturalis historia'', 36, 19 — ''C. Plini Secundi naturalis historiae libri XXXVII. Recognovit atque indicibus instruxit Ludovicus Ianus. Vol. V. Libb. XXXIII–XXXVII.'' Lipsia, 1878, p. 108:

(quote)

10. *''The Natural History of Pliny. Translated, with copious notes and illustrations by the late John Bostock and H. T. Riley. Vol. VI. With general index.'' London, 1857, p. 311:

11. **: To the story chased upon the pedestal of the statue the name of the "Birth of Pandora"29 has been given; and the figures of new-born30 gods to be seen upon it are no less than twenty in number.

29 "Pandoras Genesis." 30 Sillig is of opinion that this passage is corrupt, and is inclined to think, with Panofka, that the reading should be "nascenti adstantes," – gods "standing by the new-born" Pandora

12. Pandora, the world's first woman

13. (l) (gloss)