Ἑρσηλία

Herselia, Erselia, Hersilia

Translated by David Whitehead14 Nov 2002Vetting: high5 revisions

3 words

A proper name.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἑρσηλία· ὄνομα κύριον.

Betacode

*(ershli/a: o)/noma ku/rion.

Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon.
The name is spelled with eta as the second vowel here in the Suda and in ps.-Zonaras, but more authentically it is Hersilia, a women mentioned in accounts of the Rape of the Sabine Women (Plutarch, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, et al.)