Ἐπίνειον
sea-port
Translated by David Whitehead14 Nov 2000Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[sc. So called] from the fact that merchant ships are launched in it1 and beached. Alternatively, a small town by the sea, where the cities have their dockyards; just as Peiraieus [is] that of the Athenians and Nisaia that of the Megarid. It is possible for the word to be used of every port and coastal [town] which now most people call a kata/bolos ["naval station"].