Greek-and-Roman-mythical-names-Letter-P-S

  

Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

William Smith, Ed.

I looked at the names of these persons from a Turkish perspective!

Letters P & S

Tufts word	Meaning	Turkic word	Meaning	Other info
Palicus/Palaci	commonly found in the plural Palici, Παλικοί, were Sicilian daemons, twin sons of Zeus and the nymph Thaleia, the daughter of Hephaestus.	bala	child	Balik: fish
Pandrossos	the allbeDEWing	su	water
Papaeus	or PAPAS (Παπαῖοςor Πάπας), "father," a surname of Zeus among the Scythians (Hdt. 4.59), and of Attis. (Diod. 3.58.)	bapa/baba	vater
Paris	also called Alexander , was the second son of Priam and Hecabe	Pars	leopard	there are many Turkic names with bars > aybars, baybars, etc.
Parysatis	2. The youngest daughter of Ochus (Artaxerxes III.), king of Persia, whom according to Arrian (Arr. Anab. 7.4.5) Alexander the Great married at Susa, B. C. 325, at the same time with Barsine or Stateira, the daughter of Dareius. Arrian cites Aristobulus as his authority; but this second marriage is not mentioned by any other author.	Pars	Leopard	Barsina in the text is of interest, too. i have written about that name in my blog.
Parysatis or Parysatis Ochus	1. Daughter of Artaxerxes I. Longimanus, king of Persia, was given by her father in marriage to her own brother Dareius, surnamed Ochus, who in B. C. 424 succeeded Xerxes II. on the throne of Persia. (Ctes. Pers. 44, ed. Baehr.)	pars: leopard	Ochus: Ox in Turkic
Pataeci	Group Πάταικοι), Phoenician divinities whose dwarfish figures were attached to Phoenician nician ships. (Hdt. 3.37; Suid. and Hesych. s. v.)	bat-/pat-	to sink	[1901] PATAECI, PATAICI, orum, Gr. Πάταικοι, ων, waren phönicische Götter, deren Bildsäulen man auf das Hintertheil des Schiffes stellete. Hesych. h. v. Suid. T. III. p. 59. Sie waren wie Pygmäen gestaltet, und hatten also viel Aehnliches mit den Bildnissen der Kabiren, welche Kambyses verspottete. Herodot. Thal. III. 37. Man sah sie als die Patronen und Beschützer des Schiffes an. Ihren Namen sollen sie von dem ebräischen Worte Patach, graben. ausstechen, haben. Selden. de Diis Syr. Synt. II. c. 16. p. 358. Doch will man ihn lieber von dem phönicischen Batach, ein Vertrauen worauf setzen, ableiten. Bochart. Chan. l. II. c. 3. —-SOURCE: http://www.zeno.org/Hederich-1770/A/Pataeci,+Pataici?hl=auf
Pharasmanes	A king of the Scythian tribe of the Chorasmians, who presented himself to Alexander the Great at Zariaspa, B. C. 328,	pars: leopard	suffix -man: intensive suffix	There are other Kings of Iberia with the name Parsman. ფარსმან
Pinaria Gens	one of the most ancient patrician gentes at Rome, traced its origin to a time long previous to the foundation of the city.	Pinar	spring
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Sabaces	a Persian, was satrap of Egypt under Dareius III., and was slain at the battle of Issus, in B. C. 333 (Arr. Anab. 2.11 ; Curt. 3.8, 4.1). The name is otherwise written Sataces and Sathaces	Satuk/Satik	Sold	as a slave! There was a Satuk Bugra Han, a famous chieftain
Sadales	the son of Cotys, king of Thrace,	SATIL-: to be sold	he who was sold	>slave ( a very old tradition in Turkic history: the families didn’t want the evil ghosts take their baby (that she/he dies) so they gave them the names like that (>we have sold it, gave it already away…you can not take it anymore)
Sadocus	son of Sitalces, king of Thrace, was made a citizen of Athens, in B. C. 431	Satuk/Satik	sold, given away	sal-? to let go
Sagaritis	a nymph in whose embraces Attis became faithless to Cybele; the goddess avenged the wrong done to her by causing the tree with which the nymph's life was connected, to be cut down. (Ov. Fast.4.229.)	cak-:	to tear down, to cut	>Sagaris?
Salus	the personification of health, prosperity, and the public welfare, among the Romans.	sa/sağ	healthy	a Proto-Altaic word
Saon	a mythical lawgiver of Samothrace, is said to have been a son of Zeus by a nymph, or of Hermes by Rhene; he united the scattered inhabitants of Samothrace into one state, which he regulated by laws. (Diod. 5.48.)	sa/sağ (adj.)	respectable, healthy
Scaurus	signified a person who had a defect in his ankles or feet (Scaurum, pravis fultum maic talis,Hor. Sat. 1.3. 47), and was used, like many other words of a similar kind, as a cognomen in several Roman gentes.	aksak <aksa	PTurk. *agsa- 1 to hobble, limp 2 lame (1 хромать 2 хромой): Karakh. axsa- (MK) 1, aqsaq, aɣsaɣ (MK) 2; Tur. aksa- 1; Az. axsa- 1; Turkm. aGsa- 1; Uzb. ɔqsa- 1; Tat. aqsa- 1; Bashk. aqha- 1; Kirgh. aqsa- 1; Kaz. aqsa- 1; KBalk. axsa-, asxa- 1; KKalp. aqsa- 1; Kum. aqsa- 1; Nogh. aqsa- 1; SUygh. axsa- 1; Khak. axsa- 1; Tv. asqa- 1; Yak. axsɨm 2.  ◊ EDT 95, ЭСТЯ 76. Turk. > Mong. asag ‘(animal) lameness’.	Roman Gens
Syrmus	a kinlg> of the Triballians, who, as soon as he was aware of the intention of Alexander the Great to invade his territory. in B. C. 335,	sür-: to drive	sürmüš: he who drove

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