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Headword:
*)hlu/sion
Adler number: eta,272
Translated headword: Elysion, Elysium
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A holy [place] near Hades. But some [say it is] near Egypt, others [say it is] near
Lesbos, and others [say it is] a place or plain which has been struck by lightning; such [places] are not to be walked upon. They are also called lightning-struck [
e)nhlu/sia]. Polemon says that Athenians call a razed place [thus].[1]
*)hlu/sion: i(ero\n peri\ to\n a(/|dhn. oi( de\ peri\ *ai)/gupton, oi( de\ peri\ *le/sbon, oi( de\ to\ kekeraunwme/non xwri/on h)\ pedi/on: ta\ de\ toiau=ta/ e)stin a)/bata. kalei=tai de\ kai\ e)nhlu/sia. *pole/mwn de\ *)aqhnai/ous fhsi\ to\ kataskafe\n xwri/on kalei=n.
Notes:
Similar entry in
Photius (
Lexicon eta134), though he has 'near
Rhodes'. See also
Hesychius eta399 (which Latte regards as prompted by
Homer,
Odyssey 4.563).
See also
eta 273, and generally OCD(4) s.v. Elysium.
[1] Polemon fr. 93 (FHG 3.146).
Translated by: David Whitehead on 2 August 2005@03:34:38.
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