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Headword:
*)orfeu/s
Adler number: omicron,655
Translated headword: Orpheus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Ciconian[1] or Arcadian, [or][2] from Thracian Bisaltia;[3] an epic poet. This man lived before
Homer, 2 generations older than the Trojan Wars. He wrote a
Mythopoeia, epigrams, hymns.
*)orfeu/s, *kikwnai=os h)\ *)arka/s, e)k *bisalti/as th=s *qra|kikh=s, e)popoio/s. ge/gone de\ kai\ ou(=tos pro\ *(omh/rou, b# geneai=s presbu/teros tw=n *trwi+kw=n. e)/graye de\ *muqopoii/+an, e)pigra/mmata, u(/mnous.
Notes:
See generally under
omicron 660.
[1] From Ciconia (Kikonia, Kikones), a region of southern coastal Thrace (Barrington Atlas map 51 grid F3), cf.
kappa 1600,
kappa 1601.
[2] 'or' added by Gutschmid. Arcadia is in the central Peloponnesus (Barrington Atlas map 58 grid B2).
[3] Not properly part of Thrace, but located further west in eastern Macedonia (Barrington Atlas map 50 grid D2).
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 24 November 2003@21:12:52.
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