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ε3480Εὐήροτονwell-cultivated… adjective. Either way, it must be quoted from somewhere (perhaps Strabo 9.4.5: web address 1). In the gloss, h)rotriwme/non is the perfect passive participle of a)rotrio/w 'I plow'.Matched in noteshighshort
ε849ἙλίκηHelike, Helice… northern Peloponnese). Destroyed by a tidal wave in 373/2 BCE (Strabo 1.3.18, 8.7.2 etc.), it is one of the less implausible candidates for identification with Plato's Atlantis.Matched in noteshighshort
α1438Ἁλυσείδιονchain-mail… For chain-mail corslets see e.g. Polybius 6.23.15, Diodorus Siculus 5.30.3, Strabo 3.3.6. There and in general the adjective and its cognate headword are more usually a(lusi-.Matched in noteshighshort
λ359ΛείβηθραLeibethra… which notes also upper-case Leibethron, a mountainous district of Thrake; Strabo 9.2.25, etc.Matched in noteshighshort
γ189ΓέργηθεςGergêthes… Perhaps Gergitha, in the upper Kaikos valley of Asia Minor (Strabo 13.1.70); alternatively Gergis in the Troad (Herodotus 7.43.2; Xenophon, Hellenica 3.1.15, 21-23). [2] See more fully at Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 12.524A-B (12.26 Kaibel), quoting …Matched in noteshighshort
ε3950Ἐφόρμουςanchorages… Smith, Commentary on Thucydides Book 3 (the two harbours which Strabo (xiii. 2. 2) describes, were formed, somewhat like the two Syracusan harbours, by an island lying in front of the city. ἐπί, which …Matched in noteshighshort
χ242Χεῖρες χαλκαῖbronze hands… the Amastrians (of the S. Black Sea coast) see e.g. Strabo 12.3.1-10; Barrington Atlas map 86 grid C2. Their relevance here is because of the public square in Constantinople known as the Amastrianon/Amastrianum. [2] …Matched in noteshighshort
α4296Ἀσφαλτῖτις λίμνηBituminous Lake… the Dead Sea: see e.g. Diodorus Siculus 19.98, cf. 2.48.6; Strabo 16.2.42. For "dessicative," see xi 64. [1] alpha 470. (Adiabene is in present-day Iraq, i.e. a different location for bitumen.)Matched in noteshighshort
α1424ἈλύβηAlube, Alybe… location generated different views, as can be seen 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 …Matched in noteshighshort
α1656Ἄμπωτιςebb, ebbing, suckback… to the underworld on account of their noxious vapours (cf. Strabo 14.1.11), or the gate through which criminals were led to execution (chi 140). See further, next note. [3] From Diogenes Laertius 7.123, on …Matched in noteshighshort
ε2581Ἐπίσκοπαhitting the mark, successful… The Kardouchoi, a Median people later known as the Gordyaioi (Strabo 16.1.24), are copiously mentioned in books 3-7, esp. 4, of Xenophon's Anabasis. The present passage does not appear there verbatim, but cf. 4.2.27-8: …Matched in noteshighshort
γ25Γαλεάγραweasel-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 …Matched in noteshighshort
ι521ἽππαρχοςHipparchus, Hipparchos… (For Eratosthenes see epsilon 2898.) This title is known from Strabo (1.1.12; 2.1.41) to belong to a work on geography; it surely lies behind the garbled ei)s ta\s a)ri/stous of the text. [DW: other …Matched in noteshighshort
κ320ΚάνωποςCanopus, Kanopos… the note at kappa 319. [4] See kappa 319. Also Strabo 17.1.16-18; cf. Stephanus of Byzantium 355.5-12. [5] This phrase is a Stoic maxim; translation quoted from alpha 1654; see there, esp. notes 2 …Matched in noteshighmedium
δ1108Δίκροταdikrota, two-banked… to as a synonym of dih/rhs; see Arrian, Anabasis 6.5.2; Strabo 16.4.23 di/krota kai\ trih/reis kai\ fash/lous; Hesychius delta1759 dih/rhs nau=s: h(\n kai\ di/kroton kalou=sin, "a bireme ship, which they also call dikroton". For …Matched in noteshighshort

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