Νῶλα

Nola

Translated by David Whitehead11 Dec 2000Vetting: high4 revisions

3 notes · 18 words

An Ausonian¹ city [sc. mentioned] in Hecataeus;² Polybius calls it Nole.³ The citizens [are called] Nolioi and Nolanoi.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Νῶλα· πόλις Αὐσόνων παρὰ Ἑκαταίῳ· Πολύβιος δὲ Νώλην αὐτήν φησιν. οἱ πολῖται Νώλιοι καὶ Νωλανοί.

Betacode

*nw=la: po/lis *au)so/nwn para\ *(ekatai/w|: *polu/bios de\ *nw/lhn au)th/n fhsin. oi( poli=tai *nw/lioi kai\ *nwlanoi/.

From Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.
The Christian Latin poet Paulinus was bishop of Nola in the early 5th century.
1i.e. Italian: see alpha 4461. ↩
2Hecataeus FGrH 1 F61. Nola is an old city in Campania, situated in the plain between Mount Vesuvius and the Apennine Mountains, 15 km. northeast of the volcano (Barrington Atlas map 44 grid G4). ↩
3Polybius 2.17.1. ↩

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