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Headword:
*fqi/a
Adler number: phi,489
Translated headword: Phthia
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A city, birthplace of Achilles.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] 'of Phthian', [meaning] of Thessalian.[2]
Greek Original:*fqi/a: po/lis, patri\s *)axille/ws. kai\ *fqia/dos, *qettalikh=s.
Notes:
See also
phi 496.
[1] For Phthia as the home of Achilles, see
Homer,
Iliad 1.155-6, etc.
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v. classifies it as a "city and part" of Thessaly. As the second of these things, it is (or became) more properly known as Phthiotis; as the first, it should probably be identified with its principal city,
Pharsalos (so H.D. Westlake,
Thessaly in the Fourth Century BC (London 1935) 11-12).
[2] Sc. land. Likewise in other lexica; references at
Photius phi145 Theodoridis. This genitive singular is taken to be quoted from
Euripides: see
Hecuba 451 (with scholion),
Andromache 861.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 November 2001@04:05:36.
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