Μακροκέφαλοι
Longheads, Makrokephaloi, Macrocephali
Translated by David Whitehead7 Dec 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
There is a people so called. Palaiphatos in [book] seven of Matters Trojan says that the Longheads live in Libya, beyond [the] Kolchians.1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μακροκέφαλοι· ἔθνος ἐστὶν οὕτω καλούμενον. Παλαίφατος δέ φησιν ἐν ζʹ τῶν Τρωϊκῶν ἐν τῇ Λιβύῃ ὑπεράνω Κόλχων οἰκεῖν τοὺς Μακροκεφάλους.
Betacode
*makroke/faloi: e)/qnos e)sti\n ou(/tw kalou/menon. *palai/fatos de/ fhsin e)n z# tw=n *trwi+kw=n e)n th=| *libu/h| u(pera/nw *ko/lxwn oi)kei=n tou\s *makrokefa/lous.
Notes (1)
- Abridged from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v., commenting in the first instance on Antiphon (the Sophist) fr. 46 DK, and citing, besides Palaiphatos, Hesiod's Catalogue of Women.
- 1FGrH 44 F2. (For the Colchians cf. kappa 1979.) ↩
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Revision history6 revisions · last 29 Jun 2020
- another headword translation — Catharine Roth
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented note and keywords — David Whitehead
- added keyword — David Whitehead
- Slight addition to notes — Robert Dyer
- Translated — David Whitehead