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Headword:
*to\
a)po\
th=s
*pallaini/dos
Adler number: tau,722
Translated headword: the thing from [Athena] Pallainis
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Something frightening. [sc. So called] from the battle at Pallene, in which [the] Athenians were defeated.
Greek Original:*to\ a)po\ th=s *pallaini/dos: to\ fobero/n. a)po\ th=s e)pi\ *pallhni/di ma/xhs, e)n h(=| h(tth/qhsan *)aqhnai=oi.
Notes:
Also in
Photius and other lexica. (The phrase sounds proverbial, but is not included in the paroemiographic collections.)
For the event in question, where the would-be tyrant Peisistratos (
pi 1474) defeated his fellow-citizens in the mid sixth century BCE, see
pi 80.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 November 2007@06:45:42.
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