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Headword: Ὠλήν
Adler number: omega,71
Translated headword: Olen
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A Dymaean or a Hyperborean or a Lycian; epic poet. But probably Lycian from Xanthos [Myth, Place], as Callimachus shows, and Polyhistor in his [books] On Lycia.[1]
Greek Original:
Ὠλήν, Δυμαῖος ἢ Ὑπερβόρεος ἢ Λύκιος, ἐποποιός. μᾶλλον δὲ Λύκιος ἀπὸ Ξάνθου, ὡς δηλοῖ Καλλίμαχος καὶ ὁ Πολυί̈στωρ ἐν τοῖς περὶ Λυκίας.
Note:
[1] Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 305 (4.305 Pfeiffer); Alexander Polyhistor FGrH 273 F64.
References:
M.L. West, The Orphic Poems (1983) 53
OCD(3) 1064
Keywords: biography; epic; geography; poetry
Translated by: Benjamin Stevens on 24 May 2000@10:47:34.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes, bibliography, keywords; cosmetics) on 28 March 2001@10:15:37.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 6 November 2002@17:09:49.
Catharine Roth (added italics) on 4 July 2007@23:23:34.
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 8 August 2011@07:21:10.
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