Ἀσβαμαῖον

Asbamaion, Asbamian

Translated by Jennifer Benedict16 Mar 2002Vetting: high6 revisions

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[sc. There is a] water so called.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀσβαμαῖον· ὕδωρ οὕτω καλούμενον.

Betacode

*)asbamai=on: u(/dwr ou(/tw kalou/menon.

That is, the water of the spring of Asbama, near Tyana; mentioned in the Aristotelian Mirabilium auscultationes 845b33ff and by Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.6. (Note also Meineke's suggested emendation from *dio\s *dakih/ou to *dio\s *)asbamai/ou in Strabo 12.2.6.)