Νίκαια
Nikaia, Nicaea
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Translation
Name of a city of Bithynia;1 and by it flows a river called Pharnoutis.2
[sc. Originally] a colony of the Bottiaeans,3 it was also called Antigoneia,4 but changed its name to that of Nike, the wife of Lysimachus.5 Alternatively it has the same name, if that woman was called Nikaia. There is also a Nikaia in Illyria6 and in India7 and on the island of Kyrnos [ = Corsica] and in Leuktra8 and of the Celts9 and of the Epiknemidian Lokrians10 and near Thermopylae and [in] Thrace. Many notable men come from it. Its ethnikon [is] Nikaieus and Nikaeus -- but if, they say, it is Nikaios, the word has an acute accent on the penultima: for [it is]*nikai/a .
[sc. Originally] a colony of the Bottiaeans,3 it was also called Antigoneia,4 but changed its name to that of Nike, the wife of Lysimachus.5 Alternatively it has the same name, if that woman was called Nikaia. There is also a Nikaia in Illyria6 and in India7 and on the island of Kyrnos [ = Corsica] and in Leuktra8 and of the Celts9 and of the Epiknemidian Lokrians10 and near Thermopylae and [in] Thrace. Many notable men come from it. Its ethnikon [is] Nikaieus and Nikaeus -- but if, they say, it is Nikaios, the word has an acute accent on the penultima: for [it is]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νίκαια· ὄνομα πόλεως Βιθυνίας· ἐν ᾗ παραρρεῖ καὶ ποταμὸς Φάρνουτις λεγόμενος. Βοττιαίων ἄποικος, αὕτη κληθεῖσα καὶ Ἀντιγόνεια. παρωνόμασται δὲ Νίκῃ τῇ τοῦ Λυσιμάχου γυναικί. ἄλλως δὲ ὁμωνυμεῖ, εἴπερ ἐκείνη ἐκαλεῖτο Νίκαια. ἔστι δὲ καὶ Ἰλλυρὶς Νίκαια καὶ Ἰνδικὴ καὶ Κύρνου τῆς νήσου καὶ Λευκτρικὴ καὶ Κελτῶν καὶ Λοκρῶν Ἐπικνημιδίων καὶ περὶ Θερμοπύλας καὶ Θρᾴκην. ἄνδρες ἐξ αὐτῆς πολλοὶ λόγου ἄξιοι. ἐθνικὸν αὐτῆς Νικαιεὺς καὶ Νικαεύς. εἰ δ' ἔστι, φασί, Νικαῖος, παροξύνεται ἡ ῥηθεῖσα· Νικαία γάρ.
Betacode
*ni/kaia: o)/noma po/lews *biquni/as: e)n h(=| pararrei= kai\ potamo\s *fa/rnoutis lego/menos. *bottiai/wn a)/poikos, au(/th klhqei=sa kai\ *)antigo/neia. parwno/mastai de\ *ni/kh| th=| tou= *lusima/xou gunaiki/. a)/llws de\ o(mwnumei=, ei)/per e)kei/nh e)kalei=to *ni/kaia. e)/sti de\ kai\ *)illuri\s *ni/kaia kai\ *)indikh\ kai\ *ku/rnou th=s nh/sou kai\ *leuktrikh\ kai\ *keltw=n kai\ *lokrw=n *)epiknhmidi/wn kai\ peri\ *qermopu/las kai\ *qra/|khn. a)/ndres e)c au)th=s polloi\ lo/gou a)/cioi. e)qniko\n au)th=s *nikaieu\s kai\ *nikaeu/s. ei) d' e)/sti, fasi/, *nikai=os, parocu/netai h( r(hqei=sa: *nikai/a ga/r.
Notes (10)
- Lightly adapted from Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.
- 1See generally OCD4 s.v. Nicaea(1); Barrington Atlas map 52 grid F4; present-day Isnik. ↩
- 2cf. phi 111. ↩
- 3A non- (or semi-) Greek people of ancient Lower Macedonia. ↩
- 4After King Antigonus I Monophthalmus (d. 301 BCE). See further, next note. ↩
- 5King Lysimachus (d. 282 BCE), whose territorial gains after the death of Antigonus included this city. ↩
- 6Barrington Atlas map 49 grid B3. ↩
- 7Barrington Atlas map 6 grid C3. ↩
- 8In Boeotia, celebrated for the Boeotians' victory over the Spartans in 371 BCE. ↩
- 9Present-day Nice, in the south of France; OCD4 s.v.(2). ↩
- 10cf. nu 381. ↩
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