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Headword:
*skei/rwnos
Adler number: sigma,568
Translated headword: Skeiron's, Skiron's, Sciron's
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Name of a robber.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'Skeironian rock', [meaning] the hard [kind].[2] And it is spelled in two ways.[3]
Greek Original:*skei/rwnos: o)/noma lh|stou=. kai\ *skeirwni\s pe/tra, h( traxei=a. kai\ diforei=tai.
Notes:
[1] Here in the genitive case, evidently quoted from somewhere. For Skeiron/Skiron/Sciron the Megarian brigand killed by Theseus see OCD4 s.v. Sciron (and cf.
sigma 567).
[2] This phrase is normally in the plural: see e.g.
Strabo 1.2.20 and 9.1.4,
Diodorus Siculus 4.59.4; and in the Suda at
zeta 130. The present allusion to it suggests a proverbial application, but it does not feature in the paroemiographers.
[3] i.e. Skir- as well as Skeir-; cf. generally
sigma 566.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 December 2003@09:24:49.
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