Τέκμησσα

Tekmessa, Tecmessa

Translated by Nicholas Fincher29 Jul 2003Vetting: high5 revisions

3 notes · 23 words

A proper name.
The wife¹ of Aias.²
Also a name of a city.³ Also [sc. attested is] 'Tekmessian', the citizen [sc. from there].

Greek original · Adler’s text

Τέκμησσα· ὄνομα κύριον. ἡ τοῦ Αἴαντος γυνή. καὶ ὄνομα πόλεως. καὶ Τεκμησσεύς, ὁ πολίτης.

Betacode

*te/kmhssa: o)/noma ku/rion. h( tou= *ai)/antos gunh/. kai\ o)/noma po/lews. kai\ *tekmhsseu/s, o( poli/ths.

1Wife of Aias/Ajax and mother of his sons, Eurysaces and Philaeus. She was daughter of Teleutas (Herodotus 6.35 and elsewhere). See also alpha 2363, alpha 4737, delta 380, delta 1389, mu 1338, omicron 195. There was also an Amazon called Tekmessa. ↩
2Son of Telamon, king of Salamis, prominent in Homer's Iliad (2.557 and elsewhere). See alphaiota 9, and OCD(4) s.v. Aias. ↩
3Otherwise unattested as such. Perhaps [NF] an error for Telmessos (cf. tau 276, tau 279) or Termessos (cf. tau 349). (Or Messa in the southern Peloponnese, with an intrusive 'Tek'?) ↩

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