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Headword:
*mu/skellos
Adler number: mu,1474
Translated headword: Myskellos, Myscellus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name. And [sc. there is] an oracle [sc. to the effect that Myskellos should found a city where 'Zeus] ought to rain from a clear sky'. [Meaning] where rain out of a clear sky would overtake him. [Myskellos] never imagined that a city would be founded by him, on account of the oracle's impossibility. But when he arrived in Italy and did not know where to place the foundation [he saw] his concubine weeping, lamenting the wanderings, and in a certain way her tears are brought from the clear sky. For this was proclaimed to be in accordance with Myskellos' oracles. And with the decision to understand the oracle agreed upon, right there he founded the city.
Greek Original:*mu/skellos: o)/noma ku/rion. kai\ xrhsmo\s e)xrh=n ai)qri/as ou)/shs u(/ein au)to/n. o(/pou a)\n au)to\n e)c ai)qri/as u(eto\s la/bh|. o( de\ w)/|eto ou)k a)/n pote u(f' e(autou= ktisqh/sesqai po/lin, dia\ to\ a)du/naton tou= xrhsmou=. genome/nw| de\ au)tw=| kata\ th\n *)itali/an kai\ a)mhxanou=nti th\n kti/sin parakaqi/sasan th\n pallaki/da dakru/ein, o)durome/nhn ta\s pla/nas, kai/ pws e)nexqh=nai ta\ da/krua th=s ai)qri/as. tou=to ga\r w)noma/zeto kata\ tou\s *muske/llou xrhsmou/s. to\n de\ sumballo/menon te/los ei)lhfe/nai to\n xrhsmo\n e)kei=se kti/sai po/lin.
Note:
See already
mu 1473. The present entry's material is drawn (not very competently) from the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Clouds 371, where the phrase '[Zeus] ought to rain from a clear sky' occurs.
Translated by: Max Eager on 21 June 2009@11:05:50.
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