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Headword:
*te/lma
Adler number: tau,277
Translated headword: pond, marsh, swamp
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] muddy place, [one] having water [in it].[1]
"I care not less about such [men/things] than about the frogs in the swamps."[2]
And the Pisidian [writes]: "[he/she/it] dries up the streams, and turns the stones into swamps."[3]
Greek Original:*te/lma: to/pos phlw/dhs, u(/dwr e)/xwn. me/lei moi peri\ tw=n toiou/twn ou)de\n h(=tton h)\ tw=n e)n toi=s te/lmasi batra/xwn. kai\ *pisi/dhs: xersoi= ta\ r(ei=qra, telmatoi= de\ tou\s li/qous.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (references at
Photius tau137 Theodoridis); cf.
tau 278.
[2] Julian,
Misopogon 358a; already at
mu 481.
[3] George of
Pisidia,
Persian Expedition 2.311 Tartaglia, on Xerxes I; cf.
xi 54. Tartaglia notes (107, note 86) that the Pisidian is gesturing at the bridge of boats across the Hellespont (cf.
epsilon 845) and the canal across the Mount
Athos peninsula (Barrington Atlas map 51 grid B4, cf.
alpha 745) built by Xerxes; cf.
Herodotus 7.22 (web address 1) and 7.36 (web address 2). Although the Suda here transmits
telmatoi=, George's original text reads
r(eumatoi=: "turns the stones into streams".
L. Tartaglia, ed., Carmi di Giorgio di Pisidia, (Torino 1998)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; daily life; definition; geography; history; imagery; poetry; proverbs; rhetoric; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 December 2013@01:19:26.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (another x-ref; tweaking) on 8 December 2013@04:24:50.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 8 December 2013@04:25:52.
David Whitehead on 8 January 2014@04:31:19.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3; added bibliography, cross-references, links, and keywords) on 24 December 2025@12:43:04.
Ronald Allen (augmented n.3) on 25 December 2025@11:27:27.
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