Νισαία
Nisaia, Nisaea
Translated by David Whitehead10 Dec 2000Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Nisaia] was also1 the name for the whole of the Megarid, from Nisos the son of Pandion. Hellanicus [writes]: "he took both Nisaia and Nisos the son of Pandion and Megareus the Onchestian"2 viz. the man from Onchestos, a Boiotian city.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νισαία ἐκαλεῖτο καὶ αὐτὴ ἡ Μεγαρὶς ὅλη ἀπὸ Νίσου τοῦ Πανδίονος. Ἑλλάνικος· Νισαῖάν θ' εἷλε καὶ Νίσον τὸν Πανδίονος καὶ Μεγαρέα τὸν Ὀγχήστιον. ἤγουν τὸν ἀπὸ Ὀγχηστοῦ, πόλεως Βοιωτίας.
Betacode
*nisai/a e)kalei=to kai\ au)th\ h( *megari\s o(/lh a)po\ *ni/sou tou= *pandi/onos. *(ella/nikos: *nisai=a/n q' ei(=le kai\ *ni/son to\n *pandi/onos kai\ *megare/a to\n *)ogxh/stion. h)/goun to\n a)po\ *)ogxhstou=, po/lews *boiwti/as.
Notes (2)
- 1Besides being the name of the Saronic-Gulf port of Megara. See nu 422, nu 424. ↩
- 2Hellanicus FGrH 4 F78. ↩
References
OCD(4) p.1018 (Nisus[1])
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