Elymian

English +s + language Etymology From en Elymi an. Noun en historical Any member of a people who inhabited western Sicily during the Bronze Age and Classical antiquity. en 2009 Jeff Champion Pyrrhus of Epirus w:Pen and Sword Books https://books.google.com.au/books?id=6YivDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT202&dq=%22Elymian%22%7C%22Elymians%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwju26r0iKHzAhWitTEKHfCJD8MQ6AF6BAhSEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Elymian%22%7C%22Elymians%22&f=false unnumbered In 580 the Greeks attacked the Carthaginians and Elymians. en 2011 Irad Malkin A Small Greek World: Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CKQXm8sNgNkC&pg=PA140&dq=%22Elymian%22%7C%22Elymians%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwju26r0iKHzAhWitTEKHfCJD8MQ6AF6BAhUEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Elymian%22%7C%22Elymians%22&f=false 140 w:Oxford University Press 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". Translations French: fr Élyme mfbysense Adjective Of or pertaining to the Elymian people or their society, language, etc. en 1892 Edward Augustus Freeman E. A. Freeman The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times, Volume III: The Athenian and Carthaginian Invasions https://books.google.com.au/books?id=94wKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA83&dq=%22Elymian%22%7C%22Elymians%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwju26r0iKHzAhWitTEKHfCJD8MQ6AF6BAgdEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Elymian%22%7C%22Elymians%22&f=false 83 Clarendon Press The exact relations which existed between Carthage and the Elymian towns, those again which existed between the two Elymian towns themselves, are nowhere clearly described. Translations French: fr élyme Proper noun en linguistics An extinct, undeciphered and unclassified language spoken by the Elymians. en 2005 Irad Malkin Mediterranean Paradigms and Classical Antiquity Taylor & Francis (Routledge) https://books.google.com.au/books?id=tTLcAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA49&dq=%22Elymian%22%7C%22Elymians%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwju26r0iKHzAhWitTEKHfCJD8MQ6AF6BAg_EAI#v=onepage&q=%22Elymian%22%7C%22Elymians%22&f=false 49 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. Further reading Sicani Sicels