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Headword: *pelw/rios
Adler number: pi,952
Translated headword: monstrous
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] big.[1]
In the Epigrams: "like a monstrous lion he approached, bringing a harsh gaping mouth as to a meal."[2]
Also [sc. attested is] Pelorias, name of a place.[3]
"I am a gift from holy Pelorias."[4]
Greek Original:
*pelw/rios: me/gas. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: w(s de\ le/wn h)/nthse pelw/rios, w(s e)pi\ qoi/nan xa/sma fe/rwn xalepo/n. kai\ *pelwria/s, o)/noma to/pou. dw=ron d' e)c i(era=s ei)mi\ *pelwria/dos.
Notes:
[1] cf. scholion on Homer, Iliad 5.395. See also pi 950, pi 953.
[2] Greek Anthology 6.218.3-4 (Alcaeus), the dedication of a eunuch priest of Cybele (Kybele, a Phrygian goddess, cf. kappa 2586) who escaped from a lion by beating his timbrels; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (9) and vol. II (24-26) and further extracts from this epigram at alpha 388, gamma 158, theta 526, pi 2954, tau 316, and omega 89.
[3] See under pi 951. Pelorias, a.k.a. Peloros, was the promontory at the NE tip of Sicily (Barrington Atlas map 47 grid H2), associated with the whirlpool Charybdis (chi 144).
[4] Greek Anthology 6.224.4 (Theodoridas); on a shell found at the seashore, dedicated to Nymphs; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (192) and vol. II (541), and further extracts from this epigram at alpha 346, alpha 2766, and lambda 11.
References:
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)
Keywords: definition; epic; food; gender and sexuality; geography; imagery; meter and music; mythology; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 24 May 2004@01:36:28.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 24 May 2004@03:35:20.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 24 May 2004@03:36:12.
David Whitehead (another x-ref; cosmetics) on 4 August 2011@05:15:13.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 4 August 2011@09:13:40.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 19 September 2013@06:06:10.
Catharine Roth (tweaked notes) on 27 July 2014@22:46:27.
Ronald Allen (added map reference n.3, expanded n.4, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword) on 5 December 2018@13:30:40.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added cross-references, added keywords) on 7 December 2018@17:11:11.

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