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Headword:
*te/kmhssa
Adler number: tau,246
Translated headword: Tekmessa, Tecmessa
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name.
The wife[1] of Aias.[2]
Also a name of a city.[3] Also [sc. attested is] 'Tekmessian', the citizen [sc. from there].
Greek Original:*te/kmhssa: o)/noma ku/rion. h( tou= *ai)/antos gunh/. kai\ o)/noma po/lews. kai\ *tekmhsseu/s, o( poli/ths.
Notes:
[1] Wife of Aias/Ajax and mother of his sons, Eurysaces and Philaeus. She was daughter of Teleutas (
Herodotus 6.35 and elsewhere). See also
alpha 2363,
alpha 4737,
delta 380,
delta 1389,
mu 1338,
omicron 195. There was also an Amazon called Tekmessa.
[2] Son of Telamon, king of
Salamis, prominent in
Homer's
Iliad (2.557 and elsewhere). See
alphaiota 9, and OCD(4) s.v. Aias.
[3] Otherwise unattested as such. Perhaps [NF] an error for
Telmessos (cf.
tau 276,
tau 279) or
Termessos (cf.
tau 349). (Or Messa in the southern Peloponnese, with an intrusive 'Tek'?)
Translated by: Nicholas Fincher on 29 July 2003@13:57:35.
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