ι17Ἰάλεμος
Ialemos, dirge
He who/that which brings grief to the lost. And [there is] a proverb, "more chilly than Ialemos." They call a dirge a Ialemos. They say that he was the son of Calliope, unfortunate and deprived and orphaned.
Ἰάλεμος· ὁ ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀπολωλόσιν ἀνίαν φέρων. καὶ παροιμία, Ἰαλέμου ψυχρότερος. Ἰάλεμον τὸν θρῆνόν φασι. λέγουσι δὲ αὐτὸν υἱὸν Καλλιόπης, κακοδαίμονα καὶ ὑστερούμενον καὶ ὀρφανόν.
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