1. Σελλοί · Selloi — Chantraine
The corpus record
Σελλοί
selloi
anciens habitants de Dodone, gardiens du temple et de l’oracle de Zeus (11
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Where it lives
- Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
- Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant
2. Σελλοί · Selloi — Frisk
3. Σελλοί · Selloi — LSJ
Selli, ancient inhabitants of Dodona, guardians of the oracle of Zeus, ἀμφὶ δὲ Σελλοὶ σοὶ ναίουσʼ ὑποφῆται ἀνιπτόποδες χαμαιεῦναι Il. 16.234; τῶν ὀρείων καὶ χαμαικοιτῶν . . Σελλῶν S. Tr. 1167; ἐν ἀστρώτῳ πέδῳ εὕδουσι, πηγαῖς δʼ οὐχ ὑγραίνουσιν πόδας E. Fr. 367, cf. Arist. Mete. 352b2, Str. 7.7.10. (Pi. (Fr. 59) understood ἀμφὶ δέ σʼ Ἑλλοί in Il. l.c., but this is an error acc. to Aristarch., cf. Hsch. s.v. Σελλήεις, though countenanced by Id. s.v. Ἕλλα and Ἕλα, where it is apparently derived fro
In the wild
- Σελλοὶ · Selloi Iliad 16.234
- Σελλῶν · Sellōn Sophocles, Trachiniae 1164–1170
Where it came from
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Σελλοί (scan p. 1016; entry #7164).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Σελλοί (scan p. 1664; entry #5102).
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