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Headword: *felle/a
Adler number: phi,189
Translated headword: rockies
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] stony places suitable for grazing goats, as Isaeus [says].[1]
Also [sc. attested is] *felleu/s, a largely harsh and rocky place.
Aristophanes [writes]: "so when [you will drive] the goats out of Phelleus, like your father, leather-jerkined".[2] Phelleus [was] a rough place, of this name, in Attica. Goats tend towards the rougher and more mountainous [terrain]. From this, Dorians call pumice rocks "phelletai". And [there is] a certain festival of Dionysos called Phellos. And elsewhere [Aristophanes writes]: "the Thracian girl of Strymodoros stealing [wood] out of the phelleus".[3]
Greek Original:
*felle/a: ta\ petrw/dh kai\ ai)gi/bota xwri/a, w(s *)isai=os. kai\ *felleu/s, sklhro\s posw=s kai\ petrw/dhs to/pos. *)aristofa/nhs: o(/tan me\n ou)=n ta\s ai)=gas e)k tou= *felle/ws, w(/sper o( path/r sou difqe/ran e)nhmme/nos. *felleu\s to/pos th=s *)attikh=s ou(/tw kalou/menos traxu/s. ai( de\ ai)=ges pro\s ta\ traxu/tera kai\ o)reino/tera dia/gousin. a)po\ tou/tou de\ felle/tas le/gousi *dwriei=s tou\s kisshrw/deis li/qous. kai\ e(orth/ tis peri\ to\n *dio/nuson, *fello\s kalou/menos. kai\ au)=qis: th\n *strumodw/rou *qra=|ttan e)k tou= felle/ws kle/ptousan.
Notes:
Expanded from Harpokration s.v. See also phi 190. Despite what is suggested here, it is far from certain that the headword was a proper (topographical) name.
[1] Isaeus 8.42 (web address 1).
[2] Aristophanes, Clouds 71-2 (web address 2), with comment from the scholia there.
[3] Aristophanes, Acharnians 272-3 (web address 3); cf. theta 464, phi 190.
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Keywords: clothing; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; geography; religion; rhetoric; women; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 December 2000@04:27:47.
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David Whitehead (added notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 6 September 2002@12:37:04.
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