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271
Αἰπήεσσα
lofty
… Iliad 21.87 (web address 1), a line quoted twice by
Strabo
(13.1.50, 13.3.1) as well as by Eustathius.
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317
Αἴσηπος
Aisepos, Aesepus
… between the mouth of the Granicus and Cyzicus. According to
Strabo
(12.4.6), the Aesepus was the eastern boundary of Mysia. Hesiod, Theogony 342, mentions its divine personification (web address 1).
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117
Βαρκαίοις
Barkaian (ones), Barcaean (ones)
… "crashed into Barkaian chariots"; cf. omicron 1064. For Barke/Ptolemais see
Strabo
17.3.20-21 (C837) and Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. On its chariots see e.g. Aeneas Tacticus 16.14, with D. Whitehead, Aineias the Tactician: How to …
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213
Βαιτική
Baitike, Baetica
Strabo
3.4.20 (etc). "The heart of the [Roman] province originally (197 BC) called Further Spain, comprising a range of sophisticated and urbanized peoples formerly controlled by Carthage" (OCD(4) p.221, under Baetica).
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β
270
Βίαντος Πριηνέως δίκη
Bias 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 …
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282
Βιζύη
Bizye, Bizue
… a tribe who provided kings for Thrace under the Romans.
Strabo
7a.1.48; Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.
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β
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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β
581
Βοίδιον
calf
… 'Look under...'; rather, a memo for further research. See generally
Strabo
9.5.2,15,18,22.
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γ
5
Γάγγρα
Gangra
… times Germanicopolis; Barrington Altas map 86 grid D3. See e.g.
Strabo
12.3.41; cf. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v., citing Alexander Polyhistor (fr. 42 Müller), although Steph. also attests to a city of the same name …
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γ
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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γ
44
Γάμβρειος στολή
Gambreian garb
… fall into two groups. Thucydides 1.138 (followed by Diodorus, Nepos,
Strabo
and others) has only Lampsacus, Magnesia and Myus; Plutarch, Themistocles 29 (citing two earlier authorities), adds Percote and Palaescepsis. But only the unnamed …
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γ
189
Γέργηθες
Gergêthes
… 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 …
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259
Γῆς ὀμφαλός
earth's navel
[1] At Delphi; cf. delta 210, and see
Strabo
9.3.6; Albert Schachter, 'omphalos', in OCD(4) s.v. [2] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 895-8 (web address 1 below), with scholion.
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455
Γρίος
Grios, ? Grinos
… unknown. A mountain or mountain range Grion is described by
Strabo,
east of Miletus and overshadowing Mylasa (14.1.8, cf. 14.2.23).
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γ
487
Γυμνοπόδης
barefoot
… to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. For the adjective see
Strabo
7.2.3 (of women).
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260
Δέρμη
Derme
… (in Isauria). See generally e.g. Acts 14.6 & 20, 16.1;
Strabo
12.1.4, 12.6.3.
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320
Δείλοψ
Deilops
… of the several variant spelling of the Deuriopes, mentioned by
Strabo
(7.7.9) and others, who lived along the Erigon river in northern Makedonia/Paionia.
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1042
Διῖχθαι
to have gone through
… must be quoted from somewhere. (There are extant instances in
Strabo
and Plutarch.)
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δ
1108
Δίκροτα
dikrota, 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 …
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1113
Δικταῖον σπήλαιον
Dictaean cave
"Dictaean" means Cretan (from Crete's Mt Dicte:
Strabo
10.4.12), and more precisely it is an epithet of Zeus. The "Dictaean cave" is thus the one in which the newborn Zeus was hidden from his …
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δ
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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1189
Διοπομπεῖσθαι
to 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 …
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1236
Διώμοτος
bound by oath, oath-bound
… of Africa between Ethiopia and Mauretania, are also mentioned by
Strabo
17.3.2; Plutarch, Sertorius 7; Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 3.25.3-9; 4.6.10-14, 7.3, 11.16-20, 13.26-29; and generally mu 298.
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1335
Δολίωνος
Dolion
… mythological figure Dolion, son of Silenus [Author, Myth], see e.g.
Strabo
12.4.8 and 14.5.29 (quoting Alexandros of Aitolia: alpha 1127).
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1396
Δορυλάειον
Dorylaeion, Dorylaion, Dorylaeum
… of the same place-name, that of a city in Phrygia:
Strabo
12.8.12 (web address 1); Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.; present-day Sarhuyuk in Turkey; Barrington Atlas Map 62 Grid E2.
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1542
Δρυΐδαι
Druids
… Magi); noted by Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. See also e.g.
Strabo
4.4.2-5.
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δ
1666
Δύσοδος
(a road) hard to pass
… Thus it can occur as a toponym. For instance, in
Strabo
(12.1.3 and passim) the western part of Cilicia is *traxei=a *kiliki/a, “Rough Cilicia” (web address 1); in Herodotus 4.99.3 the south-eastern part of …
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ε
252
Ἐδοῦοι
Edouoi, Edui
… preferable, because these must be the Gallic Aedui (Aidouoi in
Strabo,
Appian and Cassius Dio); see generally OCD(4) s.v.
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702
Ἐκκυμανθῆναι
to be cast up by the waves
… somewhere; perhaps from its only extant attestation outside lexicography, in
Strabo
9.1.21 (the Attic shrine of Aphrodite Kolias is where the debris from the battle of Salamis (480 BCE) was e)kkumanqh=nai) -- though he …
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797
Ἐλεών
Eleon, Heleon
… near Tanagra; cf. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. (A 'village' in
Strabo;
and classified by the Copenhagen Polis Centre among Boeotia's 'pre-Hellenistic settlements not attested as poleis'.) Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
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