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Ἄγκυρα
Ankyra, Ancyra, Ankara
… Sea. According to Pausanias (1.4), Ankyra was founded by Midas.
Stephanus
of Byzantium s.v. Ankyra ( = Apollonius of Aphrodisias FGrH 740 F14) traces the name of the city to the anchors (ankyra) captured …
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1161
Διόμεια
Diomeia
… itself; see rather epsilon 1179). For the present entry cf.
Stephanus
of Byzantium s.v. and the Aristophanic scholia cited in the notes below. On Diomeia see generally J.S. Traill, The Political Organization of Attica …
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1569
Δύμας
Dymas
… from the eponymous ancestor of the Dorian tribe Dymanes (Ephorus,
Stephanus
of Byzantium), Dymainai or (in Sparta) Dymanis (scholia on Pindar, Pythian 1.121) or Dymanatai (Herodotus 5.68.13), a certain Dymas (stem Dyman-; erroneously Dymant- …
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1586
Δυρράχιον
Dyrrachion, Dyrrachium
… nomen Dyrrachium appellata). In this sense too Dexippos, quoted by
Stephanus
of Byzantium, reports the change of name from Epidamnos to Dyrrachion. But note Strabo 7.5.8: *)Epi/damnos *Kerkurai/wn kti/sma, h( nu=n *Durra/xion o(mwnu/mws th=| …
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1866
Ἀνάζαρβον
Anazarbos, Anazarbus
… then decided to name the city Anazarbos ("dedicated to Zarbos").
Stephanus
of Byzantium Ethnica s.v. Anazarba knows both the city and its "founder" as Anazarba, but gives no history and no alternative names.
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1445
Δωδωναῖον χαλκεῖον
Dodonian bronze
… at chi 37, see the paroemiographers (who however, together with
Stephanus
of Byzantium s.v. Dodona, gloss it as those who speak a lot. Thus Adler might have been better-advised to print (or at least …
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132
Ἠετιώνεια
Eetioneia, Eetionia
… Philochorus (FGrH 328 F72) and Thucydides (8.90-92). [1] (Also in
Stephanus
of Byzantium and elsewhere.) Meaning "other" than the Akte peninsula; the northerly and lesser of the two promontories which enclosed the Great Harbour. …
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