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3881
Ἄριμα
Arima
… Byzantium s.v., noting that their location was disputed: Cilicia (so
Strabo
13.4.6), Syria, or even Italy. [2] Perhaps an ape-god, to judge from the etymology (cf.
Strabo
13.4.6), though cf. LSJ s.v. Areimanios, II …
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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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1608
Ἀμνειός
Amneios
… was, however, a river Amnias in Paphlagonia (N.Turkey), mentioned by
Strabo
12.3.40.
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533
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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581
Βοίδιον
calf
… 'Look under...'; rather, a memo for further research. See generally
Strabo
9.5.2,15,18,22.
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25
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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1114
Δικτυεύς
net-man
e.g.
Strabo
8.7.2. For nets see delta 1115. [1] Likewise, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (454). [2] This dative singular is presumably quoted from somewhere but attested only here.
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937
Ἔμβαρός εἰμι
I am weighty
… see also beta 122 and pi 1455. [1] So e.g.
Strabo
1.3.18. [2] Mounykhos is cross-referenced at mu 1289. [3] The name means 'Mister Weighty' (but apparently implying intellectual rather than bodily "weight"). [4] …
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