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Headword:
*phlou/sion
Adler number: pi,1516
Translated headword: Pelousion, Pelusium
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Name of a place.[1]
"The key of Egypt, both of [= for] entry and of exit."[2]
Also [sc. attested is] Pelousiote, the citizen [of it].
'The Pelousiotes in Kasion by natural skill used to weave bindings, attaching beams to beams'.[3]
Greek Original:*phlou/sion: o)/noma to/pou. klei\s th=s *ai)gu/ptou kai\ ei)so/dou kai\ e)co/dou. kai\ *phlousiw/ths, o( poli/ths. o(/ti oi( *phlousiw=tai *ka/sioi fusikh=| te/xnh| a(/mmata e)/plekon, dokou\s e)pi\ dokoi=s suna/ptontes.
Notes:
[1] In Egypt (Barrington Atlas map 70 grid B3). '[T]he city at the easternmost mouth of the Nile (modern Tell el-Farama), which formed the natural entry to Egypt from the north-east, on the route up-river to
Memphis': Dorothy Thompson in OCD4 s.v. Pelusium.
[2] A memorable-sounding phrase, but unidentifiable.
[3] From
alpha 1510.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 24 May 2004@07:53:48.
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