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Headword:
*taina/rion
kako/n
Adler number: tau,205
Translated headword: Tainarian evil
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a large and unlawful [one] affecting suppliants; for the Spartans killed the Helots who had fled into
Tainaron.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] Tainarite, [meaning] the citizen [of
Tainaron].[2]
*taina/rion kako/n: to\ me/ga kai\ paranomou/menon ei)s i(ke/tas: oi( ga\r *lakedaimo/nioi katafugo/ntas tou\s *ei(/lwtas ei)s *tai/naron a)pe/kteinan. kai\ *tainari/ths, o( poli/ths.
Notes:
Apostolius 15.94, etc.
[1] For this notorious episode see under
tau 206. For
Tainaron and its homonymous temple (and Cape: present-day Matapan) at the southern-most extremity of the Peloponnese see Barrington Atlas Map 58 grid C5.
[2]
Tainaron, never a polis, could never have had 'citizens'. See rather
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v. Tainaros (sic), where plural Tainaritai appears in a quotation and cannot be pressed to mean anything more than residents.
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 April 2003@08:54:35.
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