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Headword: Λύκαιον
Adler number: lambda,799
Translated headword: Lykaion, Lycaeum
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A name of a place.[1] Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] Lykaios.[2]
Greek Original:
Λύκαιον: ὄνομα τόπου. καὶ Λυκαῖος.
Notes:
[1] Lykaion was the name of a mountain in the Peloponnese; Pausanias 8.38.2ff. There was also a city called Lykaia in Arkadia. (The name Lykeion is quite different: see lambda 801, lambda 802.)
[2] The ethnikon of the Arkadian city mentioned in the preceding note: see Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. But also and more broadly an adjective/epithet meaning 'Arkadian', used especially of Zeus. See LSJ s.v.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; religion
Translated by: Nicholas Fincher on 5 August 2003@06:00:41.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes; added keyword; cosmetics) on 5 August 2003@07:48:26.
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 27 July 2011@07:21:51.

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