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Headword:
*xalu/bois
Adler number: chi,60
Translated headword: Chalybes, Chalyboi
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A people of Scythia,[1] from where iron originated.[2]
And
Lycophron [writes]: "shattered by a Chaly[b]dican sword".[3]
Also [sc. attested is]
chalyps ["steel"], [meaning] iron.[4]
In the
Epigrams: "and steel harsh [and] reed-devouring."[5]
*xalu/bois: e)/qnos *skuqi/as, e)/nqen o( si/dhros ti/ktetai. kai\ *luko/frwn: *xaludikw=| knw/donti sunteqrausme/nw|. kai\ *xa/luy, o( si/dhros. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: kai\ xa/luba sklhro\n kalamhfa/gon.
Notes:
[1] On the Black Sea, near the R.Thermodon, according to
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v. Chalybes. See Barrington Atlas map 87. (Seemingly unconnected, therefore, with
chi 61 (q.v.).) The present headword, a dative plural, must be quoted from somewhere; perhaps
Euripides, e.g.
Alcestis 980.
[2] See further below.
[3]
Lycophron,
Alexandra 1109; cf. Steph.Byz. for the alternative spelling.
[4] See generally LSJ s.v.
[5]
Greek Anthology 6.65.4 (Paul the Silentiary); see also
kappa 1678,
omicron 124, and
tau 1027.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 3 June 2007@08:36:22.
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