Ὠλήν
Olen
Translated by Benjamin Stevens24 May 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
A Dymaean or a Hyperborean or a Lycian; epic poet. But probably Lycian from Xanthos [Myth, Place], as Callimachus shows, and Polyhistor in his [books] On Lycia.1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὠλήν, Δυμαῖος ἢ Ὑπερβόρεος ἢ Λύκιος, ἐποποιός. μᾶλλον δὲ Λύκιος ἀπὸ Ξάνθου, ὡς δηλοῖ Καλλίμαχος καὶ ὁ Πολυΐστωρ ἐν τοῖς περὶ Λυκίας.
Betacode
*)wlh/n, *dumai=os h)\ *(uperbo/reos h)\ *lu/kios, e)popoio/s. ma=llon de\ *lu/kios a)po\ *ca/nqou, w(s dhloi= *kalli/maxos kai\ o( *polui/+stwr e)n toi=s peri\ *luki/as.
Notes (1)
- OCD(4) 1035-6.
- 1Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 305 (4.305 Pfeiffer); Alexander Polyhistor FGrH 273 F64. ↩
References
M.L. West, The Orphic Poems (1983) 53
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- updated a ref — David Whitehead
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- tweaks — David Whitehead
- added italics — Catharine Roth
- cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- added notes, bibliography, keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Benjamin Stevens