Ἱρή
Hire
Translated by David Whitehead23 May 2003Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] a city [of that name].
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἱρή· πόλις.
Betacode
*(irh/: po/lis.
Notes
- In Messenia; cf. Homer, Iliad 9.150 (web address 1); Strabo 8.4.5; Pausanias 4.30.1 (Web address 2). The name means "Holy", and Homer also calls Troy
*)/ilios i(rh/ , "Holy Ilium" (Iliad 4.46, etc. [Web address 3]). (H)ire is also the way Lucian(?) refers in the Ionic dialect to the city (otherwise known as Hierapolis) he describes in On the Syrian Goddess (1).
cf. iota 593, iota 595.