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Headword: *li/nos
Adler number: lambda,568
Translated headword: Linos, Linus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

Of Chalcis,[1] [son] of Apollo and Terpsichore, but others [say] of Amphimaros and Ourania, others of Hermes and Ourania. This man is said to have been the first to bring the alphabet from Phoenicia to the Greeks.[2] He is also said to have been Heracles' teacher of letters, and the first leader of lyric song.[3]

Greek Original:

*li/nos, *xalkideu/s, *)apo/llwnos kai\ *teryixo/rhs, oi( de\ *)amfima/rou kai\ *ou)rani/as, oi( de\ *(ermou= kai\ *ou)rani/as. le/getai de\ prw=tos ou(=tos a)po\ *foini/khs gra/mmata ei)s *(/ellhnas a)gagei=n, gene/sqai de\ kai\ *(hrakle/ous dida/skalos gramma/twn kai\ th=s lurikh=s mou/shs prw=tos gene/sqai h(gemw/n.

Notes:

See generally OCD(4) 843; and cf. lambda 570.
[1] On the island of Euboea.
[2] But see gamma 416, kappa 21, kappa 22, phi 787, with different versions of the introduction of the alphabet.
[3] cf. Pausanias 9.29.6-9 (web address 1); see also epsilon 935.

Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: aetiology; biography; chronology; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; meter and music; mythology; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 13 February 2002@14:18:28.
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David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords cosmetics) on 14 February 2002@03:06:14.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 19 April 2013@06:11:53.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 19 April 2013@09:39:07.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 5 August 2014@03:44:12.
Catharine Roth (cross-reference) on 19 January 2017@01:57:07.

Headword: *li/nos
Adler number: lambda,569
Translated headword: Linos, Linus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

Another,[1] Theban, younger.

Greek Original:

*li/nos e(/teros, *qhbai=os, new/teros.

Note:

[1] sc. than lambda 568. cf. Pausanias 9.29.9: "other tales are told by the Thebans, how that later than this Linus there was born another, a teacher of music called the son of Ismenias, and how Heracles while still a child killed him".

Keywords: biography; chronology; geography; meter and music; mythology; poetry
Translated by: David Whitehead on 2 August 2006@04:40:52.
Vetted by:

Catharine Roth (set status) on 2 August 2006@15:08:59.
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords) on 3 August 2006@03:23:47.
David Whitehead on 19 April 2013@06:12:32.

Headword: *li/nos
Adler number: lambda,570
Translated headword: linos, linus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

Α sort of hymn. Homer [writes]: "he sang a fine linos".[1] [The term arises] not because of the strings [being made] from flax, but [because] they sang a sort of hymn, like a paean.
Or a string of a lyre.[2]

Greek Original:

*li/nos: ei)=dos u(/mnou. *(/omhros: li/non d' u(po\ kalo\n a)/eiden. ou) dia\ to\ ta\s xorda\s a)po\ li/nou ei)=nai, a)ll' ei)=dos u(/mnou h)=|don, w(s paia=na. h)\ lu/ras xordh/.

Notes:

[1] Homer, Iliad 18.570 (web address 1); see also the corresponding scholia, and Eustathius ad loc.. (The entry here follows Aristarchus’ interpretation of the verse.) Also see RE s.v. Linos (below); cf. lambda 568.
[2] From glosses on Herodotus 2.79.2 (where the proper name Linos appears).

Reference:

Abert, H. – Kroll, W., “Linos (1), ursprünglich ein altes Volkslied, später ein personifizierter Heros der Musik und des Gesangs”, RE XIII 1 (1926) 715-717

Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; historiography; meter and music; mythology; poetry; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 25 June 2007@18:03:17.
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David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 26 June 2007@03:41:40.
David Whitehead on 19 April 2013@06:15:38.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 20 April 2013@23:58:24.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 2 January 2015@23:54:58.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 1 June 2020@01:18:15.
David Whitehead (modified notes; added a keyword) on 1 June 2020@08:52:37.

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