Πολύβοτον

Notes (3)

1. The headword is the neuter nominative, vocative, and accusative (and masculine accusative) singular form of the adjective polu/botos, -on; see LSJ s.v.
1. 1The sense here is perhaps that the lemma is an epithet of regions, as is the final glossing word (cf. n.3). Nevertheless, Polybotos is a town in eastern Phrygia↗ (Barrington Atlas map 62 grid F4), mentioned in Procopius, Secret History 18.42, where it appears in the accusative singular, and is thus identical in form with the headword. ↩
2. 2From the scholia on Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes↗ 774 (web address 1). A number of scholiasts to this verse, upon whom the Suda evidently relies, transmit this passage as an instance of the headword rather than polu/batos (much-trodden); cf. LSJ s.v. ↩
3. 3Literally oily or shining, but here in the figurative sense of a bountiful region. An example is Pindar, Isthmian Odes 2.20 (web address 2), liparai=s *)aqa/nais (in splendid Athens↗), perhaps alluding to the region's abundant olive trees; cf. LSJ s.v. liparo/s. Other Suda passages pertaining to the gloss are lambda 586, lambda 574, and lambda 575. ↩