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Headword:
*ku/llaros
Adler number: kappa,2659
Translated headword: Kyllaros, Cyllarus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Kastor's horse. [So named] from the [verb]
ke/llein ['to impel'].[1] The quick one.
Stesichorus says that Hermes gave to the Dioskouroi "Firey and Snatchy, swift children of Flashfoot and [...] Kyllaros."[2]
*ku/llaros: i(/ppos *ka/storos. para\ to\ ke/llein. o( taxu/s. *sthsi/xoro/s fhsi to\n *(ermh=n dedwke/nai toi=s *dioskou/rois *flo/geon kai\ *(/arpagon, w)ke/a te/kna *poda/rgas kai\ *ku/llaron.
Notes:
[1] An unlikely etymology. As a common noun
*ku/llaros can refer to a type of crab; see
Aristotle,
History of Animals 530a12. Similar glossing in
Etymologicum Gudianum 353.22,
Etymologicum Magnum 544.55.
[2]
Stesichorus [
sigma 1095] fr.1 Page (from the
Funeral Games for Pelias) -- here too savagely abridged: it is Hera who gives the horse of this name. See generally web address 1 below.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; mythology; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 28 March 2008@04:38:01.
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