Κύτη

Kyte, Cuta

Translated by Nicholas Fincher31 Jul 2003Vetting: high4 revisions

5 words

Translation

A name of a city.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κύτη· ὄνομα πόλεως.

Betacode
*ku/th: o)/noma po/lews. 

Notes

  1. Otherwise attested in this precise form only in the scholia to Lycophron, Alexandra line 174 (where Medea is called 'Kytaike'). The scholiast asserts that Kyte is a city in Kolchis (present-day Georgia).
    This gives rise to 2 possible identifications. If the Kolchian city is meant, it is probably Kotais/Kytaia (kappa 2788), present-day Kutaisi in Georgia. See Barrington Atlas map 88, grid A2. But there was also a city near Zavetnoye in the present-day Ukraine which was known in antiquity by the names Kytai/Kydeake/Kyta/Kytaion (kappa 2789). See Barrington Atlas map 87, inset.

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Revision history4 revisions · last 21 Mar 2020
  1. coding — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. modified and augmented note — David Whitehead
  4. modified note; augmented keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. Translated — Nicholas Fincher

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