Ἄγκυρα
Ankyra, Ancyra, Ankara
Translated by Roger Travis · 4 Oct 2000 · Vetting: high · 9 revisions
Translation
Greek original
Ἄγκυρα· πόλις· ζήτει ἐν τῷ Γαλάται.
Betacode
*)/agkura: po/lis: zh/tei e)n tw=| *gala/tai.
Notes (2)
- OCD(4) p.84.↩
- 1As 'Ankara', the capital of present-day Turkey. The city lies in the northwestern part of Anatolia, about 125 miles south of the Black Sea. According to Pausanias (1.4), Ankyra was founded by Midas. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Ankyra ( = Apollonius of Aphrodisias FGrH 740 F14) traces the name of the city to the anchors (ankyra) captured by the Galatians when they defeated the Ptolemaic navy in the Black Sea in the 260s BCE. However, since the city was called Ankyra when Alexander the Great visited it (Arrian Anabasis 2.4.1), Stephanus' report is obviously incorrect. ↩
- 2gamma 21. ['Galatai' is Adler's own emendation of the unsatisfactory paradosis here.] See also alpha 259.
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Neighbours in Adler order
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