Μητροπόλεις
metropoleis, mother-cities
Translated by David Whitehead8 Dec 2000Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] those cities which sent out colonies.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μητροπόλεις· ὅσαι πόλεις ἀποικίας ἔστειλαν.
Betacode
*mhtropo/leis: o(/sai po/leis a)poiki/as e)/steilan.
Notes
- This nominative (or accusative) plural is presumably quoted from somewhere -- perhaps Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 3.11.1-2 (which contains much of the vocabulary used here.
For 'colonies' see generally under alpha 3713.
References
OCD4 s.v.
A.J. Graham, Colony and Mother City in Ancient Greece (Manchester 1964)
A.J. Graham, Colony and Mother City in Ancient Greece (Manchester 1964)
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Revision history5 revisions · last 9 Aug 2014
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented note and keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
- x-ref; cosmetic — David Whitehead
- cosmetics, added keyword, set status — William Hutton
- Translated — David Whitehead