A.“ἀμφὶ δὲ Σελλοὶ σοὶ ναίουσ᾽ ὑποφῆται ἀνιπτόποδες χαμαιεῦναι” Il.16.234; “τῶν ὀρείων καὶ χαμαικοιτῶν . . Σελλῶν” S.Tr.1167; “ἐν ἀστρώτῳ πέδῳ εὕδουσι, πηγαῖς δ᾽ οὐχ ὑγραίνουσιν πόδας” E.Fr.367, cf. Arist.Mete.352b2, Str.7.7.10. (Pi. (Fr.59) understood ἀμφὶ δέ σ᾽ Ἑλλοί in Il. l.c., but this is an error acc. to Aristarch., cf. Hsch. s.v. Σελλήεις, though countenanced by Id.s.v. Ἕλλα and Ἕλα, where it is apparently derived from Lacon. ἕλλα seat (sc. of Zeus at Dodona).)
Σελλοί , οἱ, Selli, ancient inhabitants of Dodona, guardians of the oracle of Zeus,
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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