Μινύειον
Minyan, Minyeios
Translated by Nicholas Fincher5 Aug 2003Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μινύειον· ὄνομα τόπου. Μινυήϊον δὲ καὶ αὐτὸ ὄνομα τόπου.
Betacode
*minu/eion: o)/noma to/pou. *minuh/i+on de\ kai\ au)to\ o)/noma to/pou.
Notes (2)
- Accusative case in both instances.
- 1More precisely an adjective which can apply to a place. When applied to Orchomenos in Boiotia, the epithet distinguished it from another Orchomenos in Arkadia. The Minyans (meaning descendants of Minyas) were supposedly autochthonous inhabitants of various parts of Greece. See e.g. Strabo 9.2.40, and generally OCD(4) s.v. Minyans and Minyas. ↩
- 2The epic/Ionic dialect version of the headword; again sometimes (e.g. Pausanias 9.36.7) applied to Minyan Orchomenos. But note also, with this spelling, Pausanias 5.6.2-3 (quoting Homer, Iliad 11.722-3) on the river Minyeios -- later known as the Anigros -- in Triphylia (western Peloponnese, Greece). ↩
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Revision history3 revisions · last 9 Aug 2014
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- modified and augmented notes; added keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Nicholas Fincher