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#* {{Q|grc|Hsch.||quote=<'''Γελλώ'''>· εἴδωλον Ἐμπούσης τὸ τῶν ἀώρων, τῶν παρθένων<br/><'''Γελλώ'''> δαίμων, ἣν γυναῖκες τὰ νεογνὰ παιδία φασὶν ἁρπάζειν}}
#* {{Q|grc|Sud.||quote='''Γελλοῦς''' παιδοφιλωτέρα: αὕτη ἄωρος ἐτελεύτησε, καὶ τὸ φάντασμα αὐτῆς ἐδόκουν ἐπὶ τὰ παιδία καὶ τοὺς ἀώρους θανάτους ἰέναι.|trans=(She) more child-loving than '''Gello''': She died unseasonably, and they imagined that her ghost went to children and to those [who had suffered] unseasonable deaths.}}


====Declension====
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{{grc-decl|Γελλώ|Γελλοῦς|form=F-sing}}
{{grc-decl|Γελλώ|Γελλοῦς|form=F-sing}}


===See also===
====See also====
* {{l|grc|Λᾰ́μῐᾰ}}
* {{l|grc|Λάμια}}


===External links===
====External links====
* {{pedia|Gello}}
* {{pedia|Gello}}


===References===
====References====
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* {{R:LSJ}}

Revision as of 19:09, 28 July 2015

Ancient Greek

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Perhaps from the the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Akkadian [script needed] (ga-al-lu-ú, gallû), [script needed] (ḪUL, gallû), [script needed] (GAL5.LÁ, gallû, Gallu),[1][2] a word from the Assyro-Babylonian religion perhaps related to ghoul,[3] as a demonic revenant who brings sickness and death,[4] from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Sumerian.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Γελλώ (Gellṓf (genitive Γελλοῦς); third declension

  1. Gello (a kind of vampiress, demoness, or goblin supposed to carry off young children and cause infertility)
    • 630 BCE – 570 BCE, Sappho, Collected Works 47:
      Γέλλως παιδοφιλωτέρα·
      Géllōs paidophilōtéra;
      (She) more child-loving than Gello.
    • 3rd century BCE, Erinna, SHell. 401.41
    • Cyranides 2.31.21
    • Cyranides 2.40.37:
      τὴν Γελλὼ τὴν πνίγουσαν τὰ βρέφη καὶ τὰς λεχοὺς ἐνοχλοῦσαν
      tḕn Gellṑ tḕn pnígousan tà bréphē kaì tàs lekhoùs enokhloûsan
    • c. 117 CE – 138 CE, Zenobius, The Proverbs of Zenobius 3.3

Declension

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 “gallû”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)[1], Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011, pages 18-19
  2. ^ Walter Burkert, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (Harvard University Press, 1992), 82-87.
  3. ^ A.A. Barb, "Antaura. The Mermaid and the Devil's Grandmother: A Lecture," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 29 (1966), p. 5.
  4. ^ M.L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, reprinted 2003), 58-59 and 111.
    On gallû, see also W.H.Ph. Römer, "The Religion of Ancient Mesopotamia," in Historia Religionum: Religions of the Past (Brill, 1969), 182

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