*kolourai/a pe/tra: koi/lh, kekamme/nh, h)\ stroggu/lh, para\ *kallima/xw|.
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 235 Pfeiffer.
The adjective
kolourai=os "stump-tailed" (glossed in LSJ as identical to
ko/louros, on which see
kappa 1952) is metaphorically extended to "truncated" (LSJ s.v.
ko/louros I.2). LSJ renders this instance of
kolourai=os as "a steep, abrupt rock".
Hesychius kappa3380 glosses the adjective as "truncated, most/very new".
Other lexicographers list
*kolourai=os as the adjective corresponding to an obscure city called Koloura, near
Priene in Asia Minor. In the
scholia to
Lycophron,
Alexandra 1322 (where this fragment of
Callimachus is preserved), the editor Scheer has capitalised the adjective, which indicates he thinks the town is meant; but the passage concerns Theseus leaving his sword under a rock near Troezen, so this is unlikely. The rock was supposed to be hollow, to accept Theseus' sword (
e)/xousan koilo/thta:
Plutarch,
Theseus 3.7).
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