Ἀκρολοφία

high-crest, mountain-ridge

Translated by Jennifer Benedict5 Mar 2000Vetting: high6 revisions

11 words

[Meaning] the crest of the ridge, that is, of the hill.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀκρολοφία· ἡ κορυφὴ τοῦ λόφου, τουτέστι τοῦ βουνοῦ.

Betacode

*)akrolofi/a: h( korufh\ tou= lo/fou, toute/sti tou= bounou=.

Same entry in ps.-Zonaras.
The headword is first found in Aeneas Tacticus (C4 BCE) -- an author not very likely to have caught the interest of lexicographers -- and attested thereafter in (e.g.) Polybius, Strabo and Diodorus Siculus.