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Headword:
*)agelei/h
Adler number: alpha,190
Translated headword: Ageleie, Booty-driver
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [An epithet of] Athena.[1]
From the [fact of her] "driving booty", [a)/gein lei/an]; that is, as a soldier.[2]
Greek Original:*)agelei/h: h( *)aqhna=. a)po\ tou= a)/gein lei/an: toute/sti stratiwtikh/.
Notes:
See already
alpha 185.
[1] Similarly glossed in the
Etymologicum Magnum (where the same etymology is found) and
Hesychius.
[2] This epic epithet is confined to Athena. The etymology "leader of the host" is also canvassed: see G.S. Kirk's note on
Homer,
Iliad 4.128, and M.L. West's on Hesiod
Theogony 318.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; mythology; poetry; religion
Translated by: Gregory Hays on 23 June 1999@13:24:33.
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