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Headword:
Χαλύβοις
Adler number: chi,60
Translated headword: Chalybes, Chalyboi
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A people of Scythia,[1] from where iron originated.[2]
And
Lycophron [writes]: "shattered by a Chaly[b]dican sword".[3]
Also [sc. attested is]
chalyps ["steel"], iron.[4]
In the
Epigrams: "and steel harsh [and] reed-devouring."[5]
Χαλύβοις: ἔθνος Σκυθίας, ἔνθεν ὁ σίδηρος τίκτεται. καὶ Λυκόφρων: Χαλυδικῷ κνώδοντι συντεθραυσμένῳ. καὶ Χάλυψ, ὁ σίδηρος. ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι: καὶ χάλυβα σκληρὸν καλαμηφάγον.
Notes:
[1] On the Black Sea, near the R.Thermodon, according to
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v. Chalybes. See Barrington
Atlas map 87. (Seemingly unconnected, therefore, with
chi 61 (q.v.).) The present headword, a dative plural, is evidently quoted from somewhere (perhaps
Euripides: see e.g.
Alcestis 980).
[2] See further below.
[3]
Lycophron,
Alexandra 1109; cf. Steph.Byz. for the alternative spelling.
[4] See generally LSJ s.v.
[5]
Greek Anthology 6.65.4.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 3 June 2007@08:36:22.
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