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Headword:
*lewko/rion
Adler number: lambda,261
Translated headword: Leokorion, Leocorium, Leos-shrine
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A place in Attica, [taking its name] from a story. Attica was once suffering from a famine, and release from its terrors was [declared to be] the sacrifice of a child. So a certain Leos contributed his own daughters and freed the city from the famine; and the place was given the name Leokorion after him.
Greek Original:*lewko/rion: to/pos th=s *)attikh=s, a)po\ i(stori/as. e)li/mwce/ pote h( *)attikh/, kai\ lu/sis h)=n tw=n deinw=n paido\s sfagh/. *lew\s ou)=n tis ta\s e(autou= qugate/ras e)pide/dwke kai\ a)ph/llace tou= limou= th\n po/lin: kai\ e)k tou/tou e)klh/qh o( to/pos *lewko/rion.
Notes:
From the
scholia to
Thucydides 1.20.2, where the headword occurs.
Phanodemos FGrH 352 F8 locates the Leokor(e)
ion "in the middle of the
Kerameikos"; cf.
lambda 262. (Not yet securely identified in excavation: see J.M. Camp,
The Athenian Agora (London 1983) 47, 79.) For this aetiology see also
Demosthenes 60.29 (web address 1);
Aelian,
Varia Historia 12.28.
Web address 1
Keywords: aetiology; agriculture; biography; children; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; geography; historiography; mythology; religion; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 July 2001@08:50:00.
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