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Worms.[1]
Also [sc. attested is genitive] εὐλαίων ["of maggots"], [meaning] of worms.[2]
Pheretima, the queen of Cyrene, paid the penalty for what she had done; for "while still living she boiled over with maggots."[3] That is, with worms.
As Babrius says in his Fables.[4]
And again: "while still alive he boiled over with evil beasts, some say with maggots, but others that [it was] not with these, but rather with lice; or thus [it should be read], with lice at any rate."[5]

Εὐλαί: σκώληκες. καὶ Εὐλαίων, τῶν σκωλήκων. ἡ δὲ Φερετίμα, ἡ Κυρήνης βασίλισσα, ἀνθ' ὧν ἔδρασε δίκας ἔδωκε: ζῶσα γὰρ ἐξέζεσεν εὐλέων. ὅ ἐστι σκωλήκων. ὥς φησι Βάβριος ἐν μυ- θικοῖς. καὶ αὖθις: ἐξέζεσε ζῶν κακοῖς θηρίοις, οἱ μὲν εὐλαῖς, οἱ δὲ ὅτι οὐ ταύταις, φθειρσὶ δὲ μᾶλλον. ἢ οὕτως: φθειρσί γε μήν.

[1] LSJ entry at web address 1. From the scholia on Homer, Iliad 19.26 and/or 22.509 (texts at web addresses 2 & 3), where the nominative plural headword occurs.
[2] From a gloss to Herodotus 3.16.4, where this genitive plural (in the form εὐλέων ) occurs.
[3] The quoted sentence is certainly from Herodotus 4.205.1 (web address 4; Perseus Encyclopedia entry at web address 5), and it may be Aelian who quoted it; Adler cites de Boor to this effect.
[4] [?]Babrius 205 (p.184 Crusius). Crusius suggests that a Babrian quotation using this word has dropped out of the Suda.
[5] Aelian fr.53 Hercher; already, slightly more briefly, at alpha 3674.

David Whitehead (added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 27 June 2001@03:35:40.
Catharine Roth (inserted a note of doubt) on 13 July 2001@19:10:09.
Catharine Roth (augmented note) on 19 September 2001@17:48:28.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 10 April 2009@07:41:11.

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