gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-27
Word count
15
Translation status
Most differences are orthographic/diacritic and punctuation (accents, breathing marks, and a middot vs comma), but there is a substantive lexical substitution in the ethnic name: Billerbeck gives Ἀγυλλαῖος while Meineke gives Γογγυλαῖος.
Mentioned Entities
Entity
Details
Μάκαλλα
Makalla (Macalla) · place
Ἰταλία
Italy · place
Φιλοκτήτης
Philoctetes · person
Μακαλλαῖος
Makallaean (inhabitant of Makalla) · people
Ἀγυλλαῖος
Agyllaean (inhabitant of Agylla/Caere) · people
Etymologies
Category
Explanation
Folk Etymology Narrative
It is called from (the fact) that Philoctetes was ‘softened’ there (i.e. 'μαλακισθῆναι'—to be made soft).