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Zenobius Sophista, Epitome collectionum Lucilli Tarrhaei et Didymi
English for the 1 passage of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.
3.3.1
Γελλὼ παιδοφιλωτέρα: ἐπὶ τῶν ἀώρως τελευτησάντων, ἤτοι ἐπὶ τῶν φιλοτέκνων μὲν, τρυφῇ δὲ διαφθειρόντων αὐτά. Γελλὼ γάρ τις ἦν παρθένος, καὶ ἐπειδὴ ἀώρως ἐτελεύτησε, φασὶν οἱ Λέσβιοι αὐτῆς τὸ φάντασμα ἐπιφοιτᾶν ἐπὶ τὰ παιδία, καὶ τοὺς τῶν ἀώρων θανάτους αὐτῇ ἀνατιθέασι. Μέμνηται ταύτης Σαπφώ.
'More fond of children than Gello': [said] of those who died before their time, or of those who love their children but ruin them by indulgence. For Gello was a maiden, and since she died before her time, the Lesbians say that her ghost haunts little children, and they attribute the deaths of those who die untimely to her. Sappho mentions her.
Translator's note. The lemma has Γελλώ in the nominative; it is rendered as the comparative proverb 'fonder of children than Gello', which would normally take the genitive.
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