Τροία: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Ion. [[Τροίη]], ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[Troy]], whether of the city, '[[Troy-town]]', <span class="bibl">Il. 9.46</span>, etc.; or the country, the [[Troad]], Τροίην ἐριβώλακα <span class="bibl">3.74</span>, etc.:—also [[Τροΐα]] as trisyll., <span class="bibl">Sapph.<span class="title">Supp.</span>5.9</span>, <span class="title">Scol.</span>17,18, dub. in <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>1190</span> (lyr., v. ad fin.); Dor. [[Τρωΐα]] <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>2.14</span>, <span class="bibl">3.60</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>363</span> (lyr.); contr. [[Τρῴα]] <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>2.81</span> (cj. Boeckh for [[Τροίας]]):—hence [[Τροίαθεν|Τροίᾱθεν]], Ion. [[Τροίηθεν]], [[from Troy]], <span class="bibl">Od.3.257</span>, etc.; ἀπὸ Τροίηθεν <span class="bibl">Il.24.492</span>; Dor. [[Τρωΐᾱθεν]] <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>7.41</span>:—[[Τροίανδε]], Ion. [[Τροίηνδε]], [[to Troy]], <span class="bibl">Il.7.390</span>, etc.; Dor. [[Τρῴανδε]] <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">I.</span>4(3).36(54)</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> a [[game]], the Lat. <span class="title">Troja</span> (Verg.<span class="title">A.</span>5.602), Τροίαν ἱππεῦσαι <span class="bibl">D.C.59.7</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">11</span>. [Zenod. and Aristarch. scanned [[Τροίη]] (Troy) as disyll. everywhere in Hom., but Aristarch. scanned (and wrote) (πόλιν) [[Τροΐην]] as trisyll. in <span class="bibl">Il.1.129</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.11.510</span>, understanding 'a [[Trojan]] city (city of the [[Troad]])', v. Sch. Il. l.c.; cf. [[Τρώϊος]]: [[Τροίη]] (Τροίης, Τροίῃ, Τροίην) stands at the beginning of the line in the phrase Τροίῃ ἐν εὐρείῃ <span class="bibl">Il.24.256</span>,<span class="bibl">494</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.1.62</span>, <span class="bibl">4.99</span>, <span class="bibl">5.307</span>; in the other <span class="bibl">82</span> occurrences the trisyll. form is admitted by the metre, but should perh. not be restored, as disyll. [[Τροίη]] ([[Τροίης]] etc.) is almost inevitably so placed in a hexam.:—codd.Pi. (in contrast to codd.Hom.) have [[Τρωΐα]] <span class="title">N.</span>4.25, al., and [[Τροΐα]] ib.2.14, al. (with either spelling the word may begin with ), cf. <span class="bibl">Eust.65.22</span>.]</span>