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Ἀγορῆθεν
from the agora
… assembly) by his betters. See also Odyssey 12.439 (quoted by
Strabo
1.2.36: a judge departs 'from the agora' for his evening meal) and Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.877.
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1298
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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1627
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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Ἄορνος
Aornos, Bird-less
… crater) at Puteoli on the Bay of Naples (see e.g.
Strabo
5.4.5, with comment on its birdlessness), Virgil's Avernus. [3] Arrian, Anabasis 4.30.4, paraphrased.
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4368
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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4461
Αὐσονίων
of Ausonians
… gloss 'Romans'. [2] This odd material is unparalleled elsewhere. [3]
Strabo's
preferred variant is *Au)so/nion pe/lagos [4] (Atlas and Kalypso, in other versions.) For this material cf. the scholia to Lykophron, Alexandra 702.
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204
Αἱμονία
Haimonia, Haemonia
An ancient name for Thessaly (in northern Greece):
Strabo
9.5.23; Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.; Horace Odes 1.37.20 (web address 1).
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271
Αἰπήεσσα
lofty
… Iliad 21.87 (web address 1), a line quoted twice by
Strabo
(13.1.50, 13.3.1) as well as by Eustathius.
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270
Βίαντος Πριηνέως δίκη
Bias of Priene's justice
… the detailed account in Diogenes Laertius 1.82-88 and more briefly
Strabo
14.1.12. The point of the quotation from Hipponax (an Ionian poet and Bias' contemporary) is that Bias was the standard for powerful forensic …
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581
Βοίδιον
calf
… 'Look under...'; rather, a memo for further research. See generally
Strabo
9.5.2,15,18,22.
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1189
Διοπομπεῖσθαι
to escort [evil] away
… that place all that they wanted to cleanse off" (cf.
Strabo
8.6.8; Pausanias 8.15.8). For further relation to rituals of ka/qarsis see [Lysias] 6.53 th\n po/lin kaqai/resqai kai\ a)podiopompei=n kai\ farmako\n a)pope/mpein kai\ a)lith/rion …
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3019
Ἑρκύνιοι δρυμοί
Hercynian forests (?Black Forest)
Ancient geographers discussed this great forest at length, especially
Strabo
in his geography of the Celts (7.1.3-5, 7.2.2, 7.3.1; cf. 4.6.9); see also Plutarch (Marius 11.9), Diodorus Siculus (5.21, 5.32), Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Roman …
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3040
Ἑρμίας
Hermias
… 670, 'Hermias(1)'. [1] Barrington Atlas map 56 grid D3. [2]
Strabo
(13.1.57) states that Hermias attended the lectures of Plato and Aristotle in Athens. [3] Wormell (p. 90) conjectures that the Suda may have …
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3255
Ἐσχατόωσαν
terminating
… of Ships (web address 1). The phrase is quoted by
Strabo
(1.2.3, 9.2.13, 9.2.14), Herodian, Stephanus of Byzantium, and others.
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3801
Εὐφορίων
Euphorion, Euphorio
… but not followed by Adler). [7] OCD(4) s.v. Alexander(9). [8]
Strabo
(9.1.18, 9.5.22) and Stephanus of Byzantium say 'from Mopsopos'. [9] Ruhnken, as Adler notes, proposed emending this to 'to Antiochus'. [10] This actual …
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464
Ἡράκλειαι στῆλαι
Herakleian pillars, Heraklean pillars, Heraclean pillars
… by which time they had become topographically fixed; see also
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3.5.2-6. Although the noun in the phrase is, as here, routinely sth=lai, that noun in common usage meant a (flat) slab rather than …
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412
Ἰόλεια
Ioleia
For 'golden-haired Ioleia', a.k.a. Iole (iota 413), see e.g.
Strabo
14.1.18 (quoting Callimachus).
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785
Ἰχναίη
Ichnaie, Ichnaia, Ichnaea
… is honored [Homeric Hymn to Apollo 94]'. Hesychius' source is
Strabo
9.5.14.
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