Σκίρων: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[<b class="b3">ῑ], ωνος, ὁ</b>, Attic name for the wind <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[which blew from the Scironian rocks]] in the Isthmus of Corinth, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Vent.</span>973b19</span> (written [[Σκίρρων]]), <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Vent.</span>62</span>, <span class="bibl">Str.1.2.20</span>, <span class="bibl">9.1.4</span>, <span class="title">CIG</span>518 (i B.C.); but it is <b class="b2">a north-west wind</b>, like [[Ἀργέστης]], in <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mete.</span>363b25</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> a mythical robber who haunted the rocks between Attica and Megara, killed by Theseus, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Mem.</span>2.1.14</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span>169a</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">Σκίρωνος ἀκτή</b> or [[ἀκταί]] the coast near these rocks, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>24.6</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>1208</span>; the adjacent sea was Σκιρωνικὸν <b class="b3">οἶδμα θαλάσσης</b>, <span class="bibl">Simon.114.3</span>; the rocks themselves Σκιρωνίδες [[πέτραι]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>979</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Heracl.</span>860</span>, <span class="bibl">Str.1.2.20</span>, <span class="bibl">9.1.4</span>; without [[πέτραι]], <span class="bibl">Plb.16.16.4</span>; written [[Σκιρρωνίδες]] in Arist.<span class="title">Vent.</span> l.c.; <b class="b3">Σκιρωνὶς ὁδός</b> the road from Athens to Megara, <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.71</span>. ([[Σκίρων]] is thus written on vases, Kretschmer <span class="title">Griech. Vaseninschr.</span>p.133; <b class="b3">Σκειρ-</b> (codd. Simon., etc.) and <b class="b3">Σκιρρ-</b> are misspellings.)</span>