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Headword:
Tellias
Adler number: tau,272
Translated headword: Tellias
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Tellias of
Akragas, a hospitable man, when 500 horsemen were billeted with him during the winter, gave each a tunic and cloak.
Tellias: hoti Tellias ho Akragantinos philoxenos ôn katalusasi pote pentakosiois hippeusin hôrai cheimônos edôken hekastôi chitôna kai himation.
Note:
Quoted from
alpha 731, q.v. For this Tellias (late C5 BCE) and this episode see also
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 1.3F [1.5 Kaibel], and
Diodorus Siculus 13.83-90, where (at 83.2)
Timaeus is cited as the source.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 November 2001@02:46:29.
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