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Headword: *ai)gi/liy
Adler number: alphaiota,48
Translated headword: Aigilips, Aegilips
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Name of a city.[1]
It also means a lofty rock. Homer [writes]: "which pours water down an aigilips rock".[2] So that even the goats [aiges] come to leave it because of the height. There is also a polis of Kephallenia so called.[3]
Greek Original:
*ai)gi/liy: o)/noma po/lews. shmai/nei de\ kai\ pe/tran u(yhlh/n. *(/omhros: h(/te kat' ai)gi/lipos pe/trhs dnofero\n xe/ei u(/dwr. w(/ste u(po\ tou= u(/yous kai\ ta\s ai)=gas lei/pesqai au)th=s e)pibai/nein. e)/sti de\ kai\ po/lis *kefallhni/as ou(/tw kaloume/nh.
Notes:
[1] In Epirus, according to Stephanus of Byzantium.
[2] Homer, Iliad 9.15, 16.4, and scholia.
[3] Not recognized by Stephanus (and perhaps deriving from a mis-reading of Homer, Iliad 2.631-5, where Kephallenia and Aigilips are mentioned in close proximity).
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 October 2000@09:02:43.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, keywords) on 3 September 2002@14:09:26.
David Whitehead (added note and keyword) on 4 September 2002@03:37:53.
David Whitehead (augmented note 3, at the prompting of Nicholas Fincher) on 17 September 2004@07:58:54.
David Whitehead on 29 July 2011@04:36:20.
David Whitehead on 22 November 2015@07:16:30.
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