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Headword:
*ka/lumnos
Adler number: kappa,268
Translated headword: kalymnos, calymnus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [A term for] the grain in Egypt. Meaning
*kalu/mnios ["Kalymnian"].[1] [So called] because Philadelphus[2] conveyed the seed out of Kalydon.[3]
Apollodorus says that these are called
kalu/dnai, [sc. accented] like
kalu/bai ["huts"].[4]
*ka/lumnos: o( e)n *ai)gu/ptw| si=tos. a)nti\ tou= *kalu/mnios. o( ga\r *fila/delfos e)k *kaludw=nos meth/gage to\ spe/rma. w(s o( *)apollo/dwro/s fhsi le/gesqai kalu/dnas, w(s kalu/bas.
Notes:
See also
Etymologicum Gudianum and
Etymologicum Magnum s.v.
*ka/lumnos.
[1] Though this entry does involve real confusion of toponyms (see n. 3 below) it does not begin here:
Kalymnos and Kalydne are alternative names for the Aegean island NW of
Kos.
[2]
Ptolemy II Philadelphus, ruler of Egypt 282-246.
[3] But read
*kaludnw=n instead of the transmitted
*kaludw=nos (for which latter cf.
kappa 266). See also
Homer,
Iliad 2.677 (web address 1) with
scholia, and
Strabo 10.5.19.
[4]
Apollodorus FGrH 244 F173.
Web address 1
Keywords: agriculture; biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; food; geography; historiography; history
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 22 August 2007@08:53:14.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented and modified notes; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 23 August 2007@03:44:51.
David Whitehead on 25 January 2013@07:25:37.
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