A.v.l. Βελίαι), Ptol.Geog.3.1.8; “Οὐέλια” D.H.1.20, who says this form is an old dialect word (ϝέλια) for ἑλώδη = marshy places; but ἕλος prob. had no. ϝ. (The coins have υελητων, υελητεων, and ϝελη（των), B Mus.Cat.Coins Italypp.304,305, 306; the Oscan name Velia was prob. adapted as *Υ̓ελέη (hence Υ̓ελῆ is more prob. than Υ̓έλη) and Ἐλέα.）
Ὑέλη , ἡ, Velia in Lower Italy, Hdt.1.167, Str.6.1.1: also called Οὐέλιαι (
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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