Ἀργανθώνη

Arganthone

Translated by Jennifer Benedict24 Jun 2001Vetting: high4 revisions

3 notes · 24 words

A proper name.¹
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "Arganthonian couch".² But there is also a mountain [called] Arganthônion on the island of Kios.³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀργανθώνη· ὄνομα κύριον. καὶ Ἀργανθώνειος κλίνη. καὶ Ἀργανθώνιον δὲ ὄρος τῆς Κίου νήσου.

Betacode

*)arganqw/nh: o)/noma ku/rion. kai\ *)arganqw/neios kli/nh. kai\ *)arganqw/nion de\ o)/ros th=s *ki/ou nh/sou.

1Feminine, so of a woman or more probably (see below) a place. ↩
2Attested only here. ↩
3Kios (kappa 1571) was not an island -- perhaps there is confusion with Chios here -- but a coastal city of Bithynia; Mount Arganthoneion, to the north, extends into the Propontis. ↩

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