[Meaning] drops [sc. of water], springs.[1]
"And the springs in it were all of salty water."[2]
*pi/dakes: stago/nes, phgai/. kai\ ai( me\n kat' au)to\ phgai\ a(lmurou= u(/datos h)=san ai( pa=sai.
cf.
pi 1554,
pi 1555.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at
Photius pi870 Theodoridis. This nominative plural is presumably quoted from somewhere.
[2] This quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti, and including not the present headword but the second of the glossing words) is unidentifiable in the precise form given here. It might, nevertheless, be a version (or summary) of what
Strabo 5.1.8 says about the Timauon (Fons Timavi) in the N Adriatic near
Aquileia: citing
Polybius, he mentions its seven springs and adds 'all but one are of salty water'. (No such passage is printed in the standard texts of
Polybius, but see F.W. Walbank,
Commentary on Polybius III [Oxford 1979] 614-5.) Jonathan Toup (1713-1785) suggested replacing
phgai\ in the quotation with
pi/dakes, also
ai( pa=sai with
a(pa=sai.
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