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Headword:
Metalleis
Adler number: mu,704
Translated headword: miners
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Those who work the [sc. Athenian silver-]mines go under this name.[1]
[Note] that Faunus [is] a son of Picus who is also Zeus;[2] they called him Hermes after a name of the wandering star. He discovered mines of gold and silver and iron and handed over the working of them to the westerners, with the result that he was called Wealth-giver by the natives.[3]
Greek Original:Metalleis: hoi ta metalla ergazomenoi houtôs onomazontai. hoti Phaunos huios Pikou tou kai Dios, hon Hermên ekalesan eis onoma tou planêtou asteros, metalla epheure chrusou kai argurou kai sidêrou kai tên toutôn ergasian paredôke tois dutikois, hôs kai ploutodotên auton hupo tôn enchôriôn kaleisthai.
Notes:
[1] This part of the entry abridges Harpokration s.v., commenting in the first instance on
Lysias fr. 89 Sauppe (now 99 Carey OCT) and going on to cite a comedy of this name.
[2] cf.
pi 1500.
[3] This paragraph is an intrusive gloss with material repeated from
phi 148. On Faunus generally OCD4 s.v.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 December 2000@06:58:49.
Vetted by:William Hutton (modified headword, translation and notes, added keywords, set status) on 12 September 2003@16:34:42.
David Whitehead (added keyword) on 15 September 2003@03:33:58.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 23 October 2005@11:26:33.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 12 July 2011@07:01:53.
David Whitehead on 9 August 2014@08:37:57.
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