[Meaning] the infantryman.
*pru/lis: o( pezo/s.
For the headword in the sense of 'armed dance' see
Callimachus,
Hymn to Zeus 52,
Hymn to Artemis 240, and generally LSJ s.v. (equating it with the pyrrhic dance,
pi 3225). However, as glossed here (and in ps.-
Zonaras s.v.) it reflects the epic plural
prule/es, denoting men-at-arms, foot-soldiers (LSJ s.v.). For this see
Homer,
Iliad 5.744, 11.49, 12.77, 15.517 and 21.90; see also the corresponding
scholia, and
Eustathius, esp. on 5.743 ff.); also Hesiod,
Shield 193, and in later poets such as
Oppian and
Nonnus. It is glossed in
Etymologicum Magnum s.v.
prule/es; cf.
Hesychius s.vv.
e(kato\n po/lewn prule/ess’ a)rarui=an,
prulei=s,
prule/es, and
prule/ess’ a)rarui=a.
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