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Headword:
*ai)gestai=os
Adler number: alphaiota,29
Translated headword: Aigestaios, Aegestaeus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Proper name.[1] But [sc. also attested is] Aigesteus, [genitive] *ai)geste/ws.[2]
Greek Original:*ai)gestai=os: o)/noma ku/rion. *ai)gesteu\s de/, *ai)geste/ws.
Notes:
[1] In the sense of being a citizen of Aigesta (Egesta,
Segesta) in western
Sicily; so in
Diodorus Siculus,
Strabo and elsewhere. (But note that
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v. equates them with the Thesprotoi, mentioned in the
Odyssey, of SW Epeiros.)
[2] Attested only here.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; historiography
Translated by: William Hutton on 26 October 2002@13:03:05.
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