Ὄβρων
Obron, Hebron?
Translated by Nicholas Fincher29 Jul 2003Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Name of a city.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὄβρων· ὄνομα πόλεως.
Betacode
*)/obrwn: o)/noma po/lews.
Notes
- Of unknown location in the form Obron (attested only here). Perhaps a mangled rendering of Hebron in the present-day West Bank -- which Theognostus registers as Obrion.
Additionally/alternatively, ps.-Zonaras and Gennadius Scholarius cite*)/wbrwn [sic] as the name of a river. [No river Obron is known, but there is a river Obrimas in Phrygia (Pliny, Natural History 5.29; cf. one suggested emendation of Livy 38.15.12), and Claudius Ptolemy 2.10.17 has a river Obringas separating Upper and Lower Germany.]
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Revision history5 revisions · last 20 Jun 2013
- typo, coding — Catharine Roth
- expansion to note — David Whitehead
- augmented note, with more material from the translator — David Whitehead
- augmented note — Catharine Roth
- augmented note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Nicholas Fincher