Μελίτη
Melite
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Translation
Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Konon [sc. mentions it].1 It is a deme of [sc. the Athenian tribe] Kekropis,2 and was named after Melite. According to Hesiod3 she was the daughter of Myrmex, but according to Mousaios4 the daughter of Apollo, son of Zeus.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μελίτη· Δημοσθένης ἐν τῷ κατὰ Κόνωνος. δῆμος δ' ἐστι τῆς Κεκροπίδος, ὀνομασθεὶς ἀπὸ Μελίτης, κατὰ μὲν Ἡσίοδον θυγατρὸς Μύρμηκος, κατὰ δὲ Μουσαῖον Δίου τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος.
Betacode
*meli/th: *dhmosqe/nhs e)n tw=| kata\ *ko/nwnos. dh=mos d' e)sti th=s *kekropi/dos, o)nomasqei\s a)po\ *meli/ths, kata\ me\n *(hsi/odon qugatro\s *mu/rmhkos, kata\ de\ *mousai=on *di/ou tou= *)apo/llwnos.
Notes (4)
- From Harpokration s.v.
- 1Demosthenes 54.7. ↩
- 2Within the city of Athens, west of the Agora. See generally J.S. Traill, The Political Organization of Attica (Princeton 1975) 50; D. Whitehead, The Demes of Attica (Princeton 1986) index s.v. ↩
- 3Hesiod fr. 225 Merkelbach-West. ↩
- 4Mousaios fr.2 B 9 Diels-Kranz. (Mousaios of Ephesos, C3 BCE, is known only from the Suda.) ↩
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