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Headword: *fqi/a
Adler number: phi,489
Translated headword: Phthia
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A city, birthplace of Achilles.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] 'of Phthian', [meaning] of Thessalian.[2]
Greek Original:
*fqi/a: po/lis, patri\s *)axille/ws. kai\ *fqia/dos, *qettalikh=s.
Notes:
See also phi 496.
[1] For Phthia as the home of Achilles, see Homer, Iliad 1.155-6, etc. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. classifies it as a "city and part" of Thessaly. As the second of these things, it is (or became) more properly known as Phthiotis; as the first, it should probably be identified with its principal city, Pharsalos (so H.D. Westlake, Thessaly in the Fourth Century BC (London 1935) 11-12).
[2] Sc. land. Likewise in other lexica; references at Photius phi145 Theodoridis. This genitive singular is taken to be quoted from Euripides: see Hecuba 451 (with scholion), Andromache 861.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; mythology; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 November 2001@04:05:36.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 6 September 2002@09:42:00.
Nicholas Fincher (added note and, hesitantly, headword.) on 17 July 2003@04:25:28.
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