Κωλιάς
Kolias, Colias
Translated by David Whitehead19 Nov 2006Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
There is a temple of Aphrodite with this name -- the name deriving from an event. An Athenian youth was captured by Etruscans and kept in chains as their slave, but the daughter of his captor fell in love with him and let him go; so once he had been freed in this way and had come home he established a temple on the headland from where he had been abducted as a thank-offering to his saviour Aphrodite. And he named the spot Kolias after the limbs [kw=la ] which had suffered in the chains. But others [say] that when Ion was sacrificing an offering of a ham [kwlh= ], a hawk snatched it and settled on that spot [sc. to eat it]. Hence the spot was named Kolias.1
Callimachus in Hecale also mentions [it].2
Callimachus in Hecale also mentions [it].2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κωλιάς· ναός ἐστι τῆς Ἀφροδίτης οὕτω καλούμενος, ἀπὸ τοῦ συμβεβηκότος τὴν προσηγορίαν λαβών. νεανίας γάρ τις Ἀττικὸς ἁλοὺς ὑπὸ Τυρρηνῶν καὶ δεσμώτης δουλεύων παραυτά, ἐρασθείσης αὐτοῦ τῆς θυγατρὸς τοῦ ἔχοντος καὶ ἀπολυσάσης, ἦλθεν εἰς τὴν οἰκείαν οὕτως ἐλευθερωθεὶς καὶ εὐχαριστήριον τῇ Ἀφροδίτῃ τῆς σωτηρίας ἐπὶ τῆς ἀκτῆς, ἀφ' ἧς ἡρπάγη, ναὸν ἐκτίσατο. Κωλιάδα δὲ προσηγόρευσε τὸν τόπον ἀπὸ τῶν κώλων, ἃ ἐν τοῖς δεσμοῖς κατεπονεῖτο. οἱ δέ, ὅτι Ἴωνος θύοντος ἱερεῖον κωλῆς, ἱέραξ ἐξήρπασε καὶ ἐπ' ἐκείνῳ τῷ τόπῳ ἐκάθισεν. ὅθεν ὁ τόπος Κωλιὰς ἐκλήθη. μέμνηται καὶ Καλλίμαχος ἐν Ἑκάλῃ.
Betacode
*kwlia/s: nao/s e)sti th=s *)afrodi/ths ou(/tw kalou/menos, a)po\ tou= sumbebhko/tos th\n proshgori/an labw/n. neani/as ga/r tis *)attiko\s a(lou\s u(po\ *turrhnw=n kai\ desmw/ths douleu/wn parauta/, e)rasqei/shs au)tou= th=s qugatro\s tou= e)/xontos kai\ a)polusa/shs, h)=lqen ei)s th\n oi)kei/an ou(/tws e)leuqerwqei\s kai\ eu)xaristh/rion th=| *)afrodi/th| th=s swthri/as e)pi\ th=s a)kth=s, a)f' h(=s h(rpa/gh, nao\n e)kti/sato. *kwlia/da de\ proshgo/reuse to\n to/pon a)po\ tw=n kw/lwn, a(\ e)n toi=s desmoi=s kateponei=to. oi( de/, o(/ti *)/iwnos qu/ontos i(erei=on kwlh=s, i(e/rac e)ch/rpase kai\ e)p' e)kei/nw| tw=| to/pw| e)ka/qisen. o(/qen o( to/pos *kwlia\s e)klh/qh. me/mnhtai kai\ *kalli/maxos e)n *(eka/lh|.
Notes (2)
- See also kappa 1939, kappa 2239.
- 1From the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 52, where Kolias is mentioned. ↩
- 2See under kappa 2239. ↩
Linked from2 entries
- κ1939ΚολιάςKoliasA coastal promontory of Attica; named from a metaphor of the kolon. And there is a shrine of Aphrodite Kolias there.
- κ2239Κωλιάδος κεραμῆεςclays of KoliasKolias [is] a place in Attica, where vessels are moulded. So he is saying: whichever [items] are borne on a wheel (he means the potter's wheel), that is, whichever [clays] are suitable for pottery-making, that of Kolias…
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- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead