Πολιάς

Notes (2)

1. The headword phrase (in which "grayness" pertains to gray hair) is presumably quoted from somewhere. Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer (1715–1785) suggested emending the headword to the genitive polia=s "of grayness"; then "of old age" would be a gloss in the same case. The genitive polia=s is usually feminine of the adjective polio/s, but is occasionally attested as from the noun polia/.
   For "of old age," the editio princeps of Demetrius Chalcocondyles (1499) reads gh/rws, genitive of gh=ras (more common than gh=ros).
1. 1Similar glossing in Hesychius (and Etym. Magn 680.16). ↩
2. 2cf. alpha 4102. ↩