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Headword: Telmisseis
Adler number: tau,279
Translated headword: Telmisseis, Telmissians
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
These men live in Caria, 60 stades away from Halicarnassus, according to Polemon.[1] But Telmissos[2] [is] a city in Lycia, [named] after Telmissos the son of Apollo and one of the daughters of Antenor [Author, Myth], with whom [Apollo] mated after changing [her] into a puppy, and hence made him a soothsayer; so [says] Dionysios in Foundations.[3]
Greek Original:
Telmisseis: houtoi oikousin en Kariai, apechontes x# stadia Halikarnassou, hôs Polemôn. Telmissos de polis en Lukiai, apo Telmissou tou Apollônos kai mias tôn Antênoros thugaterôn, hêi emigê eis skulaka metabalôn, dio kai teratoskopon auton epoiêsen: hôs Dionusios en Ktisesi.
Notes:
= Photius tau140 Theodoridis.
See also tau 276, tau 280.
[1] Polemon of Ilion fr. 35 FHG (and Preller).
[2] Telmessos, rather.
[3] Dionysios of Chalkis [Myth, Place] fr.4 FHG); cf. (but textually inferior) Apostolius 16.24.
Keywords: aetiology; gender and sexuality; geography; historiography; mythology; religion; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 October 2005@11:18:29.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, status) on 30 October 2005@11:37:13.
David Whitehead (augmented notes) on 31 October 2005@03:10:30.
David Whitehead on 8 January 2014@04:34:02.
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