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Headword:
*pellh/nh
Adler number: pi,943
Translated headword: Pellene, Pellana
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A city.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'Pellenean tunic', in reference to people wearing ancient cloaks.[2] In
Pellene there were outstanding woollen cloaks.
Aristophanes [writes]: "are you thinking of flying straight off to
Pellene?".[3] [sc. This is] because in
Pellene a woollen cloak was a prize at the Hera-festival.
*pellh/nh: po/lis. kai\ *pellhnai=os xitw/n, e)pi\ tw=n palaia\ forou/ntwn i(ma/tia. e)n de\ *pellh/nh| dia/foroi xlai=nai e)gi/nonto. *)aristofa/nhs: eu)qu\ *pellh/nhs pe/tesqai dianoh=|. e)pei\ e)n *pellh/nh| toi=s *(hrai/ois a)=qlon e)ti/qeto xlai=na.
Notes:
[1] In Achaia (N Peloponnese); Barrington Atlas map 58 grid D1.
[2] cf.
Apostolius 14.16.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Birds 1421 (web address 1). Comment from the
scholia there is deployed here.
Web address 1
Keywords: athletics; clothing; comedy; daily life; definition; geography; proverbs; religion; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 October 2001@07:28:22.
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