Ἰαζάρτης
Iazartes
Translated by Anne Mahoney12 Dec 1999Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[sc. Another name for] the river Tanais.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἰαζάρτης· ὁ Τάναϊς ποταμός.
Betacode
*)iaza/rths: o( *ta/nai+s potamo/s.
Notes
- On the river (and similarly-named city) Tanais or Don, at the top of the Black Sea, see generally D.C. Braund in OCD(4) 1430.
The spelling 'Iaxartes' (or Jaxartes) was more common.
Due to a geographical confusion, the Syr Darya in present-day Kazakhstan was thought to be the source of the Don and also called the Iaxartes and Tanais. Other names for it were Iaxartes, Silis, Tanais, Araxes, Laxates, Orexartes, Oxyartes.