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α3805ἈρδεᾶταιArdeatai, Ardeati, ArdeatesStrabo 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, …Matched in noteshighshort
α3881ἌριμαArima… 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 …Matched in noteshighshort
α3963ἍρμαHarmaHarma, 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 …Matched in noteshighshort
α3949ἈρκαῖοςArcaeus, ArkaiosApparently unattested outside lexicography. (In Strabo 12.8.14 the deity "Men Arkaios" in Pisidian Antioch is thought to be a corruption of "Aska-enos".)Matched in noteshighshort
α603ἌζωροςAzoros, 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; …Matched in noteshighshort
α4169Ἄσκησιςasceticism… the headword (others are attested: see alpha 4170) see e.g. Strabo 15.1.61 (Brahmans) and generally LSJ s.v., under III.2 (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
α3364Ἀποκόπουςcastrated men… plural, must be quoted from somewhere. [1] So in e.g. Strabo 13.4.14. [2] Likewise or similarly in other lexica.Matched in noteshighshort
α2895Ἀπανισταμένουςhaving been forced to emigrate from… is evidently quoted from somewhere; there are instances in (e.g.) Strabo, Philostratus, and Gregory of Nazianzus; and see also under epsilon 3646.Matched in noteshighshort
α706ἈθᾶνεςAthanes… corruption of? -- the Athamanes of NW Greece, extinct by Strabo's day (7.7.1 & 8, 9.4.11 & 17, etc.)Matched in noteshighshort
α1008Ἀκρολοφίαhigh-crest, mountain-ridge… interest of lexicographers -- and attested thereafter in (e.g.) Polybius, Strabo and Diodorus Siculus.Matched in noteshighshort
α4130ἈσβαμαῖονAsbamaion, Asbamian… Meineke's suggested emendation from *dio\s *dakih/ou to *dio\s *)asbamai/ou in Strabo 12.2.6.)Matched in noteshighshort
α4444Αὖλιςtent; Aulis… to Troy, and where Iphigeneia was sacrificed. See generally e.g. Strabo 9.2.8, Pausanias 9.19.6, Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.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
α659ἈηνόβαρβοςAhenobarbus… 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 …Matched in noteshighshort
α2589Ἀνῳκισμένοςsettled up-country… at Photius alpha2170 Theodoridis. For the latter sense see e.g. Strabo 13.4.6 (accusative plural).Matched in noteshighshort
α3924ἈριστόνικοςAristonicus, Aristonikos… Aristonikos(5); OCD4 Aristonicus(2). Augustan age (mentioned as a contemporary by Strabo 1.2.31). [2] See eta 583.Matched in noteshighshort
α1179Ἀλήϊον πεδίονAleian 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 …Matched in noteshighshort
α75ἈβρεττηνήAbrettene… 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 …Matched in noteshighshort
α1608ἈμνειόςAmneios… was, however, a river Amnias in Paphlagonia (N.Turkey), mentioned by Strabo 12.3.40.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
α3791ἈργυρίππηArgyrippe… was also in Italy but further south, in Apulia. See Strabo 6.3.9; Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Spelling with a single p is more common. Chief city of the Daunians and also known as Argos …Matched in noteshighshort
α4160ἈσκανίαAskania, Ascania… city of Nicaea; Barrington Atlas map 52 grid E4; cf. Strabo 12.4.5 & 8, 14.5.29. It was also a territory closely related to Phrygia, providing one of the Phrygian leaders in the Trojan War …Matched in noteshighshort
α1090ἈλβανοίAlbanoi, 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.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
α3985ἌρνηArne… settlement later (and better) known as Chaeroneia (chi 176), but Strabo 9.2.35 mentions a view that it had been submerged under Lake Kopais. Hansen 433 n.2 classifies it as 'a mythical toponym, not even …Matched in noteshighshort
α3929ἈριστοτέληςAristoteles, 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 Strabo 13.1.57: web address 1. [5] Between the asterisks the …Matched in noteshighmedium
α2579Ἄνωup… 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.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

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