Λυκεῖον ποτόν

Lykeian drink

Translated by David Whitehead13 Jul 2005Vetting: high3 revisions

21 words

i.e. from a spring discovered by Apollo, drunk by wolves. [Flowing] from wine and honey. Accented circumflex on the penultimate syllable.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Λυκεῖον ποτόν· ἤτοι ἀπὸ κρήνης τῆς ὑπὸ Ἀπόλλωνος εὑρεθείσης, ὑπὸ λύκων πινομένης. ἀπὸ οἴνου καὶ μέλιτος. προπερισπωμένως.

Betacode

*lukei=on poto/n: h)/toi a)po\ krh/nhs th=s u(po\ *)apo/llwnos eu(reqei/shs, u(po\ lu/kwn pinome/nhs. a)po\ oi)/nou kai\ me/litos. properispwme/nws.

For the headword phrase see Sophocles, Philoctetes 1461: 'o springs and Lyk(e)ian drink'.
cf. the scholia thereto; also Zenobius 4.99, and Hesychius lambda1375.

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