Λεωκόριον
Leokorion, Leocorium, Leos-shrine
Translated by David Whitehead13 Jul 2001Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
A place in Attica, [taking its name] from a story. Attica was once suffering from a famine, and release from its terrors was [declared to be] the sacrifice of a child. So a certain Leos contributed his own daughters and freed the city from the famine; and the place was given the name Leokorion after him.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λεωκόριον· τόπος τῆς Ἀττικῆς, ἀπὸ ἱστορίας. ἐλίμωξέ ποτε ἡ Ἀττική, καὶ λύσις ἦν τῶν δεινῶν παιδὸς σφαγή. Λεὼς οὖν τις τὰς ἑαυτοῦ θυγατέρας ἐπιδέδωκε καὶ ἀπήλλαξε τοῦ λιμοῦ τὴν πόλιν· καὶ ἐκ τούτου ἐκλήθη ὁ τόπος Λεωκόριον.
Betacode
*lewko/rion: to/pos th=s *)attikh=s, a)po\ i(stori/as. e)li/mwce/ pote h( *)attikh/, kai\ lu/sis h)=n tw=n deinw=n paido\s sfagh/. *lew\s ou)=n tis ta\s e(autou= qugate/ras e)pide/dwke kai\ a)ph/llace tou= limou= th\n po/lin: kai\ e)k tou/tou e)klh/qh o( to/pos *lewko/rion.
Notes
- From the scholia to Thucydides 1.20.2, where the headword occurs.
Phanodemos FGrH 352 F8 locates the Leokor(e)ion "in the middle of the Kerameikos"; cf. lambda 262. (Not yet securely identified in excavation: see J.M. Camp, The Athenian Agora (London 1983) 47, 79.) For this aetiology see also Demosthenes 60.29 (web address 1); Aelian, Varia Historia 12.28.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history5 revisions · last 31 Oct 2014
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- another keyword — David Whitehead
- added x-ref and keywords; corrected a typo — David Whitehead
- Added italics; added link; cosmetics; set status — Elizabeth Vandiver
- Translated — David Whitehead