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Ἀηνόβαρβος
Ahenobarbus
… the Ambrosian Lexicon. The Greek here (examples in Appian, Plutarch,
Strabo
and Cassius Dio) transliterates the Latin Ahenobarbus, the cognomen of one branch of the plebeian-noble Roman family of the Domitii. (For six of …
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Ἀλκυονίδες ἡμέραι
Alcyon days, Halcyon days, kingfisher days
… nesting (Simonides). The Alcyon Sea was so named, according to
Strabo,
because this corner of the Gulf of Corinth is both a nesting place for the kingfisher and a stretch sheltered from the wind. …
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Ἀμοργοί πόλεως ὄλεθρος
squeezers [are] a city's ruin
… their chest onto the shore of the island of Seriphos;
Strabo
10.5.10 (C487) conveniently summarizes the myth as a whole. (A lost satyr play of Aeschylus, Dictyulci or Net-Draggers, apparently had much the same …
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Ἀνεῖλεν
prophesied, took up, took away, killed
… Plutarch, Themistocles 2. [4] Ephorus FGrH 70 F150 (quoted in
Strabo
8.6.14) and Pausanias 2.33.2. The text there has Kalaureian for Kalabrian. See web address 2, and kappa 188. [5] See note 1 above. …
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Ἄτλας
Atlas
… is a mountain in northwest Africa, cf. Herodotus (4.184) and
Strabo
(17.3.2), evidently a coastal promontory opposite Gibraltar, to the north of today's Atlas Mountain Range (Barrington Atlas map 1a grid C2). For both, …
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Βρεντήσιον
Brentesion, Brundisium, Brindisi
OCD(4) p.253, under Brundisium. [1] Stephanus of Byzantium s.v., following
Strabo
6.3.6, is more exact: brention (sic) was their name for the head of a stag. (Stephanus also offers an alternative etymology, from Herakles …
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Γαλεάγρα
weasel-trap, iron-maiden
… never weasels): e.g. Job 27:1 LXX; the Alexander Romance 3.18;
Strabo
6.2.6; Plutarch, Moralia 974D (and cf. Lexica Segueriana, Glossae rhetoricae 227.33, Photius gamma10, Etymologicum Magnum 220.27). More frequently the animal trapped and/or held …
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Γῆς ὀμφαλός
earth's navel
[1] At Delphi; cf. delta 210, and see
Strabo
9.3.6; Albert Schachter, 'omphalos', in OCD(4) s.v. [2] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 895-8 (web address 1 below), with scholion.
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