Re: [SPAM] [tied] Hekto:r means...?

From: P&G
Message: 48327
Date: 2007-04-17

Pardon me if I'm repeating something, but I don't remember anyone in this discussion mentioning Plato's statement that Hektor = anax ("king", or "ruler").  It's in the Cratylus 393:
   "The "anax" and the "hektor" mean about the same thing."
 
Plato's etymologies, of course, are far from infallible, but it makes you think, and of course Hektor's son, Scamandrius, was nicknamed "anax of the city" (Astyanax) because his father was Hektor.
 
Peter