Παλική

Palike: a city in Sicily. Theophilos, in book 11 of his Periegesis of Sicily, says that there is a Palikine, Pallikine, Palykyne">Palikine fountain. Near it is a sanctuary of the Palikoi, who are certain daimones; Aeschylus in his Aitnai gives their genealogy as from Zeus and Thaleia daughter of Hephaistos, while Silenos, in book 2 of his Aitne, gives it as from Aitne daughter of Okeanos and Hephaistos, and says that they were called 'Palikoi' because, after dying, they came back again among men. ‘There is also a certain fountain in Palikoi in Sicily, about as large as a ten-couch dining-room. It throws water up to a height of six cubits, so that those who see it think the plain will be flooded, and then it settles back into itself. There is also a holy oath there: for whatever someone swears, after writing it on a tablet, he throws [it] into the water. If, then, he swears truly, it floats on the surface; but if he does not swear truly, the tablet disappears, and he himself is burnt.’ A citizen is a 'Palikinos', as from Eryke comes 'Erykinos', and the feminine is 'Palikine, Pallikine, Palykyne">Palikine'.