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αι48ΑἰγίλιψAigilips, Aegilips[1] In Epirus, according to Stephanus of Byzantium. [2] Homer, Iliad 9.15, 16.4, and scholia. [3] Not recognized by Stephanus (and perhaps deriving from a mis-reading of Homer, Iliad 2.631-5, where Kephallenia and Aigilips …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1569ΔύμαςDymas… 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- …Matched in noteshighshort
α1179Ἀλήϊον πεδίονAleian plain… in Cilicia (Herodotus 6.95.1; Strabo 14.5.17 (676); Arrian, Anabasis 2.5.8; Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Halai), literally means "wandering" - though Steph. Byz. derived the adjective, more prosaically, from the nearby city. cf. generally alpha …

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Αἰγίλιψ

Aigilips, Aegilips

Name of a city. It also means a lofty rock. Homer [writes]: "which pours water down an aigilips rock". So that even the goats [aiges] come to leave it because of the height. There is also a polis of Kephallenia so…

Αἰγίλιψ· ὄνομα πόλεως. σημαίνει δὲ καὶ πέτραν ὑψηλήν. Ὅμηρος· ἥτε κατ' αἰγίλιπος πέτρης δνοφερὸν χέει ὕδωρ. ὥστε ὑπὸ τοῦ ὕψους καὶ τὰς αἶγας λείπεσθαι αὐτῆς ἐπιβαίνειν. ἔστι δὲ…

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α1424ἈλύβηAlube, Alybe… in e.g. Strabo 12.3.20-24 and 13.1.45; also, more faintly, in Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. One tradition -- which recognised the name as Chalybe -- placed it in the east, connecting the Chalybes with the …Matched in noteshighshort

α2963ἈπαισόςApaisos, ApaesusIn the Troad; mentioned by Homer, Iliad 2.828; see also Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.Matched in noteshighshort

α3985ἌρνηArneFrom the scholia to Homer, Iliad 2.507. Stephanus of Byzantium lists 4 'cities' of this name, in various places, but the one the Suda means is unambiguous. According to Pausanias 9.40.5 (web address 1), …Matched in noteshighshort

αι29ΑἰγεσταῖοςAigestaios, Aegestaeus… so in Diodorus Siculus, Strabo and elsewhere. (But note that Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. equates them with the Thesprotoi, mentioned in the Odyssey, of SW Epeiros.) [2] Attested only here.Matched in noteshighshort

αι123ΑἴθικεςAithikes, Aethices… and Thessaly: Homer, Iliad 2.744; Strabo 7.7.8-9, 9.5.11-12 & 19; Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. See also under alpha 683.Matched in noteshighshort

αι268ΑἴπειαAipeiaStephanus of Byzantium s.v. registers three poleis of this name, in 'Lakonike', Cyprus and Crete. The first of them is most likely to have generated this Suda entry and its counterparts (Hesychius alpha2045; Ambrosian …Matched in noteshighshort

αι340ΑἰσύμηAisume, Aisyme… locative) at Homer, Iliad 8.304 (which generated an entry in Stephanus of Byzantium); Aisymne is a variant in that verse.Matched in noteshighshort

δ1416ΔουλίχιοςDoulichios, Doulichion, Dolicha, Doliche, Dulichium… here is a mistake; it was Doulichion (Homer, Strabo, Pausanias, Stephanus of Byzantium), when not Dolicha/Doliche. NF adds: Doulichion in Homer seems to be a substantial island and (controversially; cf. Strabo 10.2.10, 14, 19) …Matched in noteshighshort

ε797ἘλεώνEleon, HeleonMentioned by Homer. In Boeotia (central Greece), near Tanagra; cf. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. (A 'village' in Strabo; and classified by the Copenhagen Polis Centre among Boeotia's 'pre-Hellenistic settlements not attested as poleis'.) Likewise …Matched in noteshighshort

ε3255Ἐσχατόωσανterminating… The phrase is quoted by Strabo (1.2.3, 9.2.13, 9.2.14), Herodian, Stephanus of Byzantium, and others.Matched in noteshighshort