Meaning of Elymian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any member of a people who inhabited western Sicily during the Bronze Age and Classical antiquity.
   historical
2. An extinct, undeciphered and unclassified language spoken by the Elymians.

Examples

“In 580 the Greeks attacked the Carthaginians and Elymians.”

“To the Elymians and the Phoenicians the change of names could have signified a welcome return to the older name of the colony (Makara = "Herakleia") before the Selinuntines seized it and named it "Minoa".”

“The chance find of a dump at Segesta has yielded more Elymian inscriptions (mostly single words, inscribed in Greek letters on potsherds) than all other sites combined.”

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