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Headword: Halipedon
Adler number: alpha,1240
Translated headword: halipedon
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning a] level plain next to the sea.[1]
Some people call Piraeus this.[2] It is also an accessible place[3] which once was sea and afterwards became a plain. Hence one must aspirate the first [sc. syllable], for it is as much as to say a plain of salt [a(lo/s]. And some call the coastal plain [of Attica] this. Others [say] that it got its name from the ability for horses to roll [a)lindei=sqai] in it, that is wallow.
See above, under Alex.[4]
Greek Original:
Halipedon: homalon edaphos para têi thalassêi. tines de ton Peiraia phasin. esti de kai koinos topos, hos palai men ên thalassa, authis de gegone pedion. dio kai dasunteon tên prôtên, esti gar hoion halos pedion. hoi de to parathalassion pedion houtô kalousin. alloi de para to dunasthai en autôi hippous alindeisthai, toutesti konisasthai, tên onomasian labein. zêtei opisô en tôi Alêx.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius alpha955 Theodoridis; see also Kassel-Austin, PCG II p.145 (on Aristophanes fr. 243).
[2] The immediate source now becomes Harpokration s.v., here abridged.
[3] A koino\s to/pos -- but Harpok. has the adverb koinw=s, i.e. "in common usage it is a place"
[4] alpha 1195. (In fact, though, the cross-reference should be to alpha 1196.)
Reference:
Robert Garland, The Peiraieus (London 1987) 7
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 18 May 2000@20:28:48.
Vetted by:
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