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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.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added notes and keywords) on 27 October 2002@04:36:16.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 10 May 2012@08:26:10.
David Whitehead (more keywords; coding) on 22 November 2015@05:55:23.

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