Φελλέα
rockies
Translated by David Whitehead22 Dec 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] stony places suitable for grazing goats, as Isaeus [says].1
Also [sc. attested is]*felleu/s , a largely harsh and rocky place.
Aristophanes [writes]: "so when [you will drive] the goats out of Phelleus, like your father, leather-jerkined".2 Phelleus [was] a rough place, of this name, in Attica. Goats tend towards the rougher and more mountainous [terrain]. From this, Dorians call pumice rocks "phelletai". And [there is] a certain festival of Dionysos called Phellos. And elsewhere [Aristophanes writes]: "the Thracian girl of Strymodoros stealing [wood] out of the phelleus".3
Also [sc. attested is]
Aristophanes [writes]: "so when [you will drive] the goats out of Phelleus, like your father, leather-jerkined".2 Phelleus [was] a rough place, of this name, in Attica. Goats tend towards the rougher and more mountainous [terrain]. From this, Dorians call pumice rocks "phelletai". And [there is] a certain festival of Dionysos called Phellos. And elsewhere [Aristophanes writes]: "the Thracian girl of Strymodoros stealing [wood] out of the phelleus".3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φελλέα· τὰ πετρώδη καὶ αἰγίβοτα χωρία, ὡς Ἰσαῖος. καὶ Φελλεύς, σκληρὸς ποσῶς καὶ πετρώδης τόπος. Ἀριστοφάνης· ὅταν μὲν οὖν τὰς αἶγας ἐκ τοῦ Φελλέως, ὥσπερ ὁ πατήρ σου διφθέραν ἐνημμένος. Φελλεὺς τόπος τῆς Ἀττικῆς οὕτω καλούμενος τραχύς. αἱ δὲ αἶγες πρὸς τὰ τραχύτερα καὶ ὀρεινότερα διάγουσιν. ἀπὸ τούτου δὲ φελλέτας λέγουσι Δωριεῖς τοὺς κισσηρώδεις λίθους. καὶ ἑορτή τις περὶ τὸν Διόνυσον, Φελλὸς καλούμενος. καὶ αὖθις· τὴν Στρυμοδώρου Θρᾷτταν ἐκ τοῦ φελλέως κλέπτουσαν.
Betacode
*felle/a: ta\ petrw/dh kai\ ai)gi/bota xwri/a, w(s *)isai=os. kai\ *felleu/s, sklhro\s posw=s kai\ petrw/dhs to/pos. *)aristofa/nhs: o(/tan me\n ou)=n ta\s ai)=gas e)k tou= *felle/ws, w(/sper o( path/r sou difqe/ran e)nhmme/nos. *felleu\s to/pos th=s *)attikh=s ou(/tw kalou/menos traxu/s. ai( de\ ai)=ges pro\s ta\ traxu/tera kai\ o)reino/tera dia/gousin. a)po\ tou/tou de\ felle/tas le/gousi *dwriei=s tou\s kisshrw/deis li/qous. kai\ e(orth/ tis peri\ to\n *dio/nuson, *fello\s kalou/menos. kai\ au)=qis: th\n *strumodw/rou *qra=|ttan e)k tou= felle/ws kle/ptousan.
Notes (3)
- Expanded from Harpokration s.v. See also phi 190. Despite what is suggested here, it is far from certain that the headword was a proper (topographical) name.
- 1Isaeus 8.42 (web address 1). ↩
- 2Aristophanes, Clouds 71-2 (web address 2), with comment from the scholia there. ↩
- 3Aristophanes, Acharnians 272-3 (web address 3); cf. theta 464, phi 190. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 3 perseus.tufts.edu
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