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603
Ἄζωρος
Azoros, Azorus
… "Azoros, a city of Pelagonia, of the so-called Tripolis, as
Strabo
[7.7.9] says; founded by a certain Azoros." There was an Azoros -- the present-day Vouvala -- in the mountains of Perrhaibia (northern Thessaly; …
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3805
Ἀρδεᾶται
Ardeatai, Ardeati, Ardeates
Strabo
5.3.4 and Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Ardea give this as the ethnikon of Ardea in Latium (central Italy). See generally OCD(4) p.145, s.v. Ardea.
Strabo
7.5.1 mentions an Ardea or Ardia in Dalmatia, …
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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.
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13.4.6), though cf. LSJ s.v. Areimanios, II …
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3929
Ἀριστοτέλης
Aristoteles, Aristotle
… 3040, where the name is written 'Hermias'. [4] According to
Strabo,
Hermeias shared the tyranny with his master Euboulos and then succeeded him. See
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13.1.57: web address 1. [5] Between the asterisks the …
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3963
Ἅρμα
Harma
Harma, in the mountains between Attica and Boiotia
(Strabo
9.2.11 calls it "in Boiotia"), was a place where lightning-omens were watched for; the proverb from it (besides
Strabo
loc.cit. see Plutarch, Moralia 679C) thus …
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Ἀβρεττηνή
Abrettene
… to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. Abrettene is mentioned by
Strabo
and Arrian, amongst others. Its name is derived from the nymph Brettia (according to Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.), and it lay between the …
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121
Ἀγαθός
good
… Quotation unidentifiable, but for the Daoi, a Danubian people, see
Strabo
7.3.12 (web address 1); Steph.Byz, s.v. Dakia; OCD(4) p.409 s.v. Dacia, and Herodotus 1.125.4 (web address 2).
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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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354
Ἀγριᾶνες
Agrianes, Agrianians
… the headwaters of the R. Strymon, in present-day Bulgaria (Herodotus,
Strabo,
et al.; Barrington Atlas map 49 grid E1). The present gloss, however, highlights their military role: they were a small but nevertheless important …
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523
Ἀδράστεια Νέμεσις
Adrasteian Nemesis, Nemesis of Adrastos
… goddess as Adrasteia." For the temple to Adrasteia Nemesis, see
Strabo
13.1.13.
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594
Ἀζηνιεύς
Azenieus, Azenia-man
… the tribal eponym Hippothoon see iota 558 (and OCD s.v.).
Strabo
(9.398) appears to locate this deme at the southern tip of Attica, but his text is conventionally emended from Azenieis to Ateneis (Der …
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659
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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706
Ἀθᾶνες
Athanes
… corruption of? -- the Athamanes of NW Greece, extinct by
Strabo's
day (7.7.1 & 8, 9.4.11 & 17, etc.)
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714
Ἀθέμιστα
lawless [things]
… Aelian fr. 198 Domingo-Forasté, 195 Hercher (again at pi 1549).
Strabo
13.3.4 provides more details: "it is at the Phryconian Larisa that Piasos is said to have been honoured; he, they say, was ruler …
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858
Ἀκή
Ake, Acre
… the Israeli army, to be incorporated in Israel. Demosthenes (52.20),
Strabo
(16.2.25-26), Stephanus of Byzantium (Ethnica 59.11, 538.7) and Harpocration s.v. all accentuate the name on the first syllable, *)/akh, but this may be …
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1008
Ἀκρολοφία
high-crest, mountain-ridge
… interest of lexicographers -- and attested thereafter in (e.g.) Polybius,
Strabo
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1043
Ἀκυληΐα
Aquileia
… city under the empire. The amber trade was especially important
(Strabo
4.207f.; 5.214). A Christian church council was held there in 381 with Ambrose presiding. Attila sacked the city in 452 but did not …
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1090
Ἀλβανοί
Albanoi, Albani, Albanians
… who lived on the coast of the Caspian sea; cf.
Strabo
11.14.1 (web address 1); Pliny, Natural History 6.38; and see generally OCD(4) s.v. Albania.
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1179
Ἀλήϊον πεδίον
Aleian plain
… 6.201) in Lycia but more exactly in Cilicia (Herodotus 6.95.1;
Strabo
14.5.17 (676); Arrian, Anabasis 2.5.8; Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Halai), literally means "wandering" - though Steph. Byz. derived the adjective, more prosaically, from …
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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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1424
Ἀλύβη
Alube, 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 …
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1438
Ἁλυσείδιον
chain-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-.
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1506
Ἀμασεία
Amaseia, Amasia
[1] A city of Pontus, the birthplace of the historian
Strabo.
In his book a description of his hometown is preserved (12.561). See web addresses 1 & 2. [2] Although several historical persons bore …
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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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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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1656
Ἄμπωτις
ebb, 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 …
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2371
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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2579
Ἄνω
up
… see in brief OCD(4) p.878); cf. "city of Makar" in
Strabo
8.3.31 and esp. 13.1.7, where this line is quoted.
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2589
Ἀνῳκισμένος
settled up-country
… at Photius alpha2170 Theodoridis. For the latter sense see e.g.
Strabo
13.4.6 (accusative plural).
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Ἀνύτειν
to accomplish
… eponymous founder of Ninevah, see nu 417 and generally e.g.
Strabo
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