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Γαλάτεια
Galateia, Galatea
… among Hellenistic poets, chiefly through the agency of the Sicilian
Theocritus.
Usually it is Polyphemus who pursues Galateia, unsuccessfully (e.g.
Theocritus,
Idyll 11), but a parallel tradition develops in which Galateia is at least …
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Γριπεύς
fisherman, net-man
… meaning of bo/los see LSJ s.v. (web address 1), citing
Theocritus,
Idylls 1.40. The more likely meaning here is that Hermonax has a net already full of fish; as a gesture of his gratitude …
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