Παλική

Palike: a city in Sicily. Theophilos, in book 11 of his Periegesis of Sicily, says that there is a 'Palikine, Pallikine, Palykyne">Palikine' spring. Near it is a shrine of the Palikoi, who are certain daimones; Aeschylus in the Aitnai gives their genealogy as from Zeus and Thaleia daughter of Hephaistos, while Silenos in book 2 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 human beings. 'There is also a certain spring in Palikoi in Sicily, large enough for about ten couches. It throws water upwards to a height of six cubits, so that those watching think that the plain will be flooded, and then it settles back into itself again. There is also a sacred oath there: whatever a person swears, he writes on a tablet and 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 up.' The citizen is 'Palikinos', as 'Erykinos' is from Eryke, and the feminine is 'Palikine, Pallikine, Palykyne">Palikine'.