ἑκατηβελέτης: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: surname of Apollon (Α 75, Hes. Sc. 100, h. Ap. 157; always in gen. <b class="b3">-έταο</b>);<br />Other forms: after it <b class="b3">ἑκατηβελέτις</b> (Theol. Ar.).<br />Origin: GR [a formation built with Greek elements]<br />Etymology: Either from [[βάλλω]] (s. v.) or (better) for <b class="b3">*ἑκατη-βελής</b> with enlarging <b class="b3">-της</b> as in <b class="b3">αἰει-γενέτης</b> for <b class="b3">*αἰει-γενής</b> etc. after <b class="b3">ἀκαλα-ρρεϜέ-της</b> (> <b class="b3">ἀκαλαρρείτης</b>), <b class="b3">νεφελ-ηγερέ-τα</b> etc., cf. Schwyzer 451f. A compound with <b class="b3">βάλλω</b> is in any case the synonymous <b class="b3">ἑκατη-βόλος</b>, Dor. <b class="b3">-α-</b> (Il.). Already by the ancients compared with <b class="b3">ἑκη-βόλος</b> and interpreted as <b class="b2">hitting from afar</b> or as <b class="b2">with hundred shots</b> explained. Against the latter, which was proposed by Wackernagel IF 45, 314ff. (= Kl. Schr. 2, 1254ff.) (he translated: [[hundreds hitting]]), must be objected, that one would expect as 1. member <b class="b3">ἑκατομ-</b>, cf. the old word <b class="b3">ἑκατόμ-βη</b>. The attractive connection with <b class="b3">ἑκη-βόλος</b> suggests that <b class="b3">ἑκατη-βελέτης</b>, <b class="b3">-βόλος</b> are metrically lengthened "Streckformen", perh. adapted to <b class="b3">ἑκατόν</b>. <b class="b3">ἑκατη-βόλος</b> could be a cross of <b class="b3">ἑκη-βόλος</b> and Apollons epithet <b class="b3">Ε῝κατος</b> (Il.) (cf. z. B. <b class="b3">Ἴφι-τος</b> for <b class="b3">Ίφι-κράτης</b>, <b class="b3">-κλῆς</b> a. o.). (Wrong Bechtel Lex. s. v.) - After v. Wilamowitz Glaube 1, 325 <b class="b3">Ε῝κατος</b>, <b class="b3">Ἐκάτη</b> are from an Anatolian language and by the Greeks adapted to <b class="b3">ἑκατηβόλος</b>, <b class="b3">ἑκηβόλος</b>; but <b class="b3">ἑκά-εργος</b> is certainly Greek. - Further Schwyzer 439 n. 8, and Kretschmer Glotta 18, 235f.