[Meaning] she who dwells in the mountains.
"[He/she/it] placed these tresses on the enclosure for the mountainy goddess."[1]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "mountainy apples", [meaning] those that occur on mountains.[2]
Oreia: hê en oresin anastrephomenê. tasde theêi chaitas perikleidi thêken oreiai. têi en oresi. kai Oreia mêla, ta en oresi ginomena.
For this adjective see also
omicron 541.
[1]
Greek Anthology 6.173.5 (Rhianos of Bene (
rho 158), 7 Gow-Page, fr. 67 Powell). Quoted more fully at
gamma 23, where in place of "on the enclosure" (
periklei=di) one finds more plausibly "around the door" (
peri\ dikli/di). The goddess in question is probably Cybele. See
gamma 23, and
Aristophanes,
Birds 726.
[2] This appellation for apples is only attested elsewhere in a gloss on the term
o)roma/lides in
scholia to
Theocritus,
Idylls 5.94.
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