Πρύλις

Notes

1. For the headword in the sense of 'armed dance' see Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus 52, Hymn to Artemis 240, and generally LSJ s.v. (equating it with the pyrrhic dance, pi 3225). However, as glossed here (and in ps.-Zonaras s.v.) it reflects the epic plural prule/es, denoting men-at-arms, foot-soldiers (LSJ s.v.). For this see Homer, Iliad 5.744, 11.49, 12.77, 15.517 and 21.90; see also the corresponding scholia, and Eustathius, esp. on 5.743 ff.); also Hesiod, Shield 193, and in later poets such as Oppian and Nonnus. It is glossed in Etymologicum Magnum s.v. prule/es; cf. Hesychius s.vv. e(kato\n po/lewn prule/ess’ a)rarui=an, prulei=s, prule/es, and prule/ess’ a)rarui=a.