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Headword: *pompi/lios
Adler number: pi,2027
Translated headword: Pompilius
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A proper name.[1] Also [sc. attested is] pompilos, a fish.[2]
Greek Original:
*pompi/lios: o)/noma ku/rion. kai\ *pompi/los, i)xqu/s.
Notes:
[1] That of Numa (nu 456, nu 515) Pompilius, early Roman king and legislator; see also pi 2047.
[2] The pilot-fish, Gasterosteus auctor, which follows ships. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 7.282E-284E [7.18-21 Kaibel] has a dossier of material on it. See also iota 186; cf. Hesychius s.v. and scholia on Oppian, Halieutica.
Keywords: biography; definition; history; law; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 1 October 2002@03:34:18.
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Catharine Roth (cosmetics, cross-reference, status) on 1 August 2004@01:57:39.
Catharine Roth (added another cross-reference) on 1 August 2004@02:02:33.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 1 August 2004@06:44:56.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 13 April 2010@08:41:18.
Catharine Roth (another cross-reference, expanded note, raised status) on 11 July 2011@22:38:05.
David Whitehead on 15 January 2015@10:42:34.
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