Νοστία

Nostia

Translated by David Whitehead11 Dec 2000Vetting: high4 revisions

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A village of Arkadia. Ephorus, in saying that the ethnikon [is] Nestanioi, seems to know it [as] Nestania.¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Νοστία· κώμη Ἀρκαδίας. Ἔφορος δὲ τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νεστανίους εἰπὼν δοκεῖ Νεστανίαν αὐτὴν εἰδέναι.

Betacode

*nosti/a: kw/mh *)arkadi/as. *)/eforos de\ to\ e)qniko\n *nestani/ous ei)pw\n dokei= *nestani/an au)th\n ei)de/nai.

1Ephorus FGrH 70 F234. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v., from which the present entry derives, cites Theopompus (FGrH 115 F175) for "Nostia". If they are the same, which is by no means certain, the more usual name for the place mentioned by Ephorus was Nestane. ↩

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