person
Gello
also: Γελλώ, Γἐλλως (Cox print)
A girl of Lesbos who died untimely and returned, the islanders said, as a child-snatching ghost; proverbially 'fonder of children than Gello' (fr. 178) — doting, and dooming.
Reading notes
- Fragments of Uncertain Book, with the Epigrams and Dubia §178 Gello
A girl of Lesbos who died untimely and returned, the islanders said, as a child-snatching ghost; the proverb cuts both ways — doting on children, and dooming them.