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CHAP. XXXV.] SILVER-FOOTED THRONE. 263
Here, when instead of pursuing, they were them-
selves pursued by their antagonists, the principal
carnage of the Persians took place.
Psyttaleia is a low and barren islet. Its present
name is Lipsokoutali. This is, I think, a corruption
of the older name, which, in the mouth of a Greek,
would be pronounced Psyttalia. The attempt to give
the word some meaning in the modern language3
produced the present modification of the old name.
It was the spectacle of the slaughter made by the
Greeks here which struck the mind of the 4 Persian
monarch with so much horror, that he sprung from
the silver-footed throne on which he was sitting on
3 In which KowrdXt signifies a spoon, and, as applied to this small flat
island, expresses nearly the same idea as the ancient name did, which
seems to be nothing more than a corruption of ^rj-TTa Xeta. Coulouri, the
modern name of Salamis, is in the same way expressive of its circular form.
KouXewpt is interpreted by 5<f>i<s in Eustath. ad Dionys. Perieget., and is
the same word as the Latin coluber and colurus: hence it means a cir-
cular cake (KokXvpa. Aristoph. Pac. 122.), which is its signification in
Greece now; and hence the iron ring which encircles the pole of a plough
is now called tcoXXoupa.
* jEschyl. Pers. 465.
j5je/o£l]S dvtOfJL<o]~€lt KCCKWV OftWV fidOoS'
edpav yap elxe Tfa-v^bs cuavyjj ffrpaTov,
vilrrjXdv oyQov dyxt ireXayias a\os,
pq£as Sk ireirXovs KdvatcaiKutras Xtyii
rji^ dtc6(Tfi.ti) %vv tpvyrj.
The position of his throne seems to have been on the southern side of
the hill now called KepttToVupyo, and formerly ^Egaleos. Schol. Aristid.
p. 183. Dindorf. SJe'p^Tjs Ka6?j<rTo kirl tjJs ijiretpov eh to dvydXeov
(read top AlydXetnv) 6pm KaravriKpb 2a\a/upos. Cp. Harpocrat. v,
dpyvpoirovs Sitppos.
Here, when instead of pursuing, they were them-
selves pursued by their antagonists, the principal
carnage of the Persians took place.
Psyttaleia is a low and barren islet. Its present
name is Lipsokoutali. This is, I think, a corruption
of the older name, which, in the mouth of a Greek,
would be pronounced Psyttalia. The attempt to give
the word some meaning in the modern language3
produced the present modification of the old name.
It was the spectacle of the slaughter made by the
Greeks here which struck the mind of the 4 Persian
monarch with so much horror, that he sprung from
the silver-footed throne on which he was sitting on
3 In which KowrdXt signifies a spoon, and, as applied to this small flat
island, expresses nearly the same idea as the ancient name did, which
seems to be nothing more than a corruption of ^rj-TTa Xeta. Coulouri, the
modern name of Salamis, is in the same way expressive of its circular form.
KouXewpt is interpreted by 5<f>i<s in Eustath. ad Dionys. Perieget., and is
the same word as the Latin coluber and colurus: hence it means a cir-
cular cake (KokXvpa. Aristoph. Pac. 122.), which is its signification in
Greece now; and hence the iron ring which encircles the pole of a plough
is now called tcoXXoupa.
* jEschyl. Pers. 465.
j5je/o£l]S dvtOfJL<o]~€lt KCCKWV OftWV fidOoS'
edpav yap elxe Tfa-v^bs cuavyjj ffrpaTov,
vilrrjXdv oyQov dyxt ireXayias a\os,
pq£as Sk ireirXovs KdvatcaiKutras Xtyii
rji^ dtc6(Tfi.ti) %vv tpvyrj.
The position of his throne seems to have been on the southern side of
the hill now called KepttToVupyo, and formerly ^Egaleos. Schol. Aristid.
p. 183. Dindorf. SJe'p^Tjs Ka6?j<rTo kirl tjJs ijiretpov eh to dvydXeov
(read top AlydXetnv) 6pm KaravriKpb 2a\a/upos. Cp. Harpocrat. v,
dpyvpoirovs Sitppos.