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Λιμοδωριεῖς · Famine-Dorians (λ 555) · Suda

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Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

Near λ555

λ551pool
λ552marsh fish, lake fish
λ553Limnos, Limnus
λ554Limnoreia
λ555Famine-Dorians
λ556famine, hunger
λ557Melian famine, Melian hunger, Melian starvation
λ558scurvy
λ559I am famished

Suda/Λ lambda/λ555

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Λιμοδωριεῖς

Famine-Dorians

Translated by David Whitehead9 Sep 2001Vetting: high5 revisions

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11 words

Translation

Those Peloponnesians who because of famine migrated into Rhodes↗ and Knidos↗.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Λιμοδωριεῖς· Πελοποννησίων οἱ διὰ λιμὸν μετοικήσαντες εἰς Ῥόδον καὶ Κνίδον.

Betacode

*limodwriei=s: *peloponnhsi/wn oi( dia\ limo\n metoikh/santes ei)s *(ro/don kai\ *kni/don.

Notes

Same entry in Photius (lambda314 Theodoridis), and cf. more fully Hesychius lambda1041. The episode is undated, but presumably early.
Outside lexicography, the term is attested in e.g. a proverb-collection attributed to Plutarch (where only Rhodes, not Knidos, is mentioned) and in ps.-Scylax, Periplous 62 (a variant tradition naming Erineos, Boion and Kytinion, in Doris, central Greece).

Linked from1 entry

κ1873ΚνίδηnettleA plant. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'Knidian crop/fruit', [meaning] that of (?)Knidos.

Neighbouring entries

λ553ΛίμνοςLimnos, Limnus λ554ΛιμνώρειαLimnoreia λ555ΛιμοδωριεῖςFamine-Dorians λ556Λιμόςfamine, hunger λ557Λιμὸς ΜηλιαῖοςMelian famine, Melian hunger, Melian starvation

Revision history5 revisions · last 20 Apr 2013

20 Apr 2013coding — Catharine Roth
19 Apr 2013Revised — David Whitehead
1 Jul 2008expanded note; more keywords — David Whitehead
20 Nov 2003another keyword — David Whitehead
19 Nov 2003Set status — Elizabeth Vandiver
9 Sep 2001Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Λιμοδωριεῖς (Adler number lambda 555), trans. David Whitehead, 9 Sep 2001. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/lambda/555

Translation by David Whitehead for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, Elizabeth Vandiver, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗