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Headword:
*sikeli/zein
Adler number: sigma,389
Translated headword: to play the Sicilian
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The [verb that means] to be severe in
Epicharmus,[1] though some [say it means] to be a villain.[2]
They say that a Pythian oracle came to Archidamos, son of Agesilaos, [warning him] to be on his guard against '
Sicily'. And [the story goes that] he regarded the island [of that name] with caution; and he lost his life fighting on the three-legged crest in Attica which bears this name,
Sicily.[3]
*sikeli/zein: to\ au)sthreu/esqai para\ *)epixa/rmw|, oi( de\ ponhreu/esqai. fasi\n *)aghsila/ou *)arxida/mw| gene/sqai puqo/xrhston, *sikeli/an fula/ttesqai. kai\ to\n me\n th\n nh=son e)/xein di' eu)labei/as: kai\ e)s to\n triskelh= lo/fon kata\ th\n *)attikh/n, w(=| kei=tai tou=to to\ o)/noma *sikeli/a, kate/luse to\n bi/on maxo/menos.
Notes:
[1]
Epicharmus fr. 206 Kaibel, now 207 K.-A.
[2] LSJ s.v. has another (musical) meaning.
[3] cf. generally
Pausanias 8.11.12 (see under
alpha 2452), but the present material has significant differences and was attributed by Hemsterhuys to
Aelian. King Archidamos III of
Sparta (ruled 360-338) actually died in Italy (
Diodorus Siculus 16.88.3-4).
Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 June 2007@08:43:23.
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