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Headword: *lewko/rion
Adler number: lambda,261
Translated headword: Leokorion, Leocorium, Leos-shrine
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A place in Attica, [taking its name] from a story. Attica was once suffering from a famine, and release from its terrors was [declared to be] the sacrifice of a child. So a certain Leos contributed his own daughters and freed the city from the famine; and the place was given the name Leokorion after him.
Greek Original:
*lewko/rion: to/pos th=s *)attikh=s, a)po\ i(stori/as. e)li/mwce/ pote h( *)attikh/, kai\ lu/sis h)=n tw=n deinw=n paido\s sfagh/. *lew\s ou)=n tis ta\s e(autou= qugate/ras e)pide/dwke kai\ a)ph/llace tou= limou= th\n po/lin: kai\ e)k tou/tou e)klh/qh o( to/pos *lewko/rion.
Notes:
From the scholia to Thucydides 1.20.2, where the headword occurs.
Phanodemos FGrH 352 F8 locates the Leokor(e)ion "in the middle of the Kerameikos"; cf. lambda 262. (Not yet securely identified in excavation: see J.M. Camp, The Athenian Agora (London 1983) 47, 79.) For this aetiology see also Demosthenes 60.29 (web address 1); Aelian, Varia Historia 12.28.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: aetiology; agriculture; biography; children; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; geography; historiography; mythology; religion; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 July 2001@08:50:00.
Vetted by:
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added italics; added link; cosmetics; set status) on 1 November 2003@21:30:28.
David Whitehead (added x-ref and keywords; corrected a typo) on 2 November 2003@05:24:07.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 11 November 2005@06:00:18.
David Whitehead on 4 April 2013@09:27:43.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 31 October 2014@23:28:28.

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