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ι412ἸόλειαIoleiaFor 'golden-haired Ioleia', a.k.a. Iole (iota 413), see e.g. Strabo 14.1.18 (quoting Callimachus).Matched in noteshighshort
αι204ΑἱμονίαHaimonia, HaemoniaAn ancient name for Thessaly (in northern Greece): Strabo 9.5.23; Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.; Horace Odes 1.37.20 (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
ι785ἸχναίηIchnaie, Ichnaia, Ichnaea… is honored [Homeric Hymn to Apollo 94]'. Hesychius' source is Strabo 9.5.14.Matched in noteshighshort
ν438ΝιφάτηςNiphates[1] Mentioned in e.g. Strabo 11.12-14. [2] A line (fr.3 Didot = 7 Heitsch) from the late epic poet Pisander of Laranda, quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium (s.v.). For 'foothill' see pi 2990.Matched in noteshighshort
αι271Αἰπήεσσαlofty… Iliad 21.87 (web address 1), a line quoted twice by Strabo (13.1.50, 13.3.1) as well as by Eustathius.Matched in noteshighshort
ν367ΝιγρῆτεςNigretes… from 'Dionysius' (i.e. D. Periegetes, Orbis descriptio 215). See also Strabo 2.5.33, 16.4.37, 17.3.3 & 7; and Barrington Atlas map 29, right side ('Nigritae').Matched in noteshighshort
α311Ἀγορῆθενfrom 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.Matched in noteshighshort
λ829ΛυκώρειαLykoreus, Lykorian… Byzantium classifies it as a "village in Delphi"; see also Strabo 9.3.3.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3255Ἐσχατόωσανterminating… 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.Matched in noteshighshort
ν131ΝέδωνNedon… Atlas map 58 grid C3. [2] So Stephanus, drawing on Strabo 8.4.4 (cf. 8.3.29, where however a genitive *ne/dwnos has been conjectured). [3] Lykophron [the hellenistic poet: lambda 827], Alexandra 374, where Nedon is …Matched in noteshighshort
β270Βίαντος Πριηνέως δίκηBias 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 …Matched in noteshighshort
α2849ἌορνοςAornos, 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.Matched in noteshighshort
α4461Αὐσονίωνof 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.Matched in noteshighshort
η464Ἡράκλειαι στῆλαιHerakleian pillars, Heraklean pillars, Heraclean pillars… by which time they had become topographically fixed; see also Strabo 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 …Matched in noteshighshort
β581Βοίδιονcalf… 'Look under...'; rather, a memo for further research. See generally Strabo 9.5.2,15,18,22.Matched in noteshighshort
α4368ἌτλαςAtlas… 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, …Matched in noteshighshort
ν337ΝήριτονNeriton… citadel of the island of Leucas: see also Thucydides 3.7.4, Strabo 10.2.8, Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
α1627Ἀμοργοί πόλεως ὄλεθροςsqueezers [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 …Matched in noteshighshort
ν37Νάρθηξnarthex; fennel; Narthekis… Byzantium s.v. (the source of the Suda's material), and already Strabo 14.1.14.Matched in noteshighshort
ε3040ἙρμίαςHermias… 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 …Matched in noteshighmedium
ε3019Ἑρκύνιοι δρυμοίHercynian 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 …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3801ΕὐφορίωνEuphorion, 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 …Matched in noteshighmedium
α1298Ἀλκυονίδες ἡμέραιAlcyon 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. …Matched in noteshighmedium
ν297Νηγάτεονnegatean [??newly made, not crafted by human hands, undamaged]… on fine Egyptian linen at 142-43, 64, 132-33, cf. 142-43; Strabo 498; Pollux 5.4.26). It is used five times outside commentary and lexicography, twice in Homer’s Iliad and twice in Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica. In …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1189Διοπομπεῖσθαιto 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 …Matched in noteshighshort