Λαιστρυγονία
Laistrygonia, Laestrygonia
Translated by David Whitehead13 Jul 2001Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
A city.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λαιστρυγονία· πόλις.
Betacode
*laistrugoni/a: po/lis.
Notes
- cf. kappa 1330, lambda 85, lambda 204. The Laistrygones were cannibal giants encountered by Odysseus in Homer, Odyssey 10.80-132, and subsequent tradition located them in the western Mediterranean; either Sicily or S Italy. See generally K.J. Dover in Gomme, Andrewes, Dover, A Historical Commentary on Thucydides iv (Oxford 1970) 210-11; OCD(4) s.v. Laestrygones.