Τὸ ἀπὸ τῆς Παλλαινίδος

the thing from [Athena] Pallainis

Translated by David Whitehead8 Nov 2007Vetting: high4 revisions

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Something frightening. [sc. So called] from the battle at Pallene, in which [the] Athenians were defeated.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Τὸ ἀπὸ τῆς Παλλαινίδος· τὸ φοβερόν. ἀπὸ τῆς ἐπὶ Παλληνίδι μάχης, ἐν ᾗ ἡττήθησαν Ἀθηναῖοι.

Betacode

*to\ a)po\ th=s *pallaini/dos: to\ fobero/n. a)po\ th=s e)pi\ *pallhni/di ma/xhs, e)n h(=| h(tth/qhsan *)aqhnai=oi.

Also in Photius and other lexica. (The phrase sounds proverbial, but is not included in the paroemiographic collections.)
For the event in question, where the would-be tyrant Peisistratos (pi 1474) defeated his fellow-citizens in the mid sixth century BCE, see pi 80.

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