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κ404ΚάρνιοςKarnian… etc.). The Suda's headword 'Karnios' is also found twice in Stephanus of Byzantium: as the ktetikon of a city of Aiolis called Karne, and as the ethnikon of an Akarnanian island-city called Karnos. Probably …Matched in noteshighshort
α19ἈβαρνίςAbarnis… and Lampsakos; Barrington Atlas map 51 grid H4. According to Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. *)/abarnos (sic), Abarnos and Aparnis were also attested versions of its name. A scholium to Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.932 (repeated …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2411ΚρητῖνοςKretinos… otherwise unattested in this nominative case. What is attested (in Stephanus of Byzantium and Herodian, citing Phlegon of Tralles [FGrH 257 F30]), is the genitive Kretinou, as that of one of the successive founders …Matched in noteshighshort
λ311ΛεσχίδηςLeschides… of Boura, in Achaia, see e.g. Pliny, Natural History 33.156; Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Boura.Matched in noteshighshort
α3784ἌργουσαArgoura, Argousa… Place] (FGrH 423 F1). The name, all other sources (including Stephanus of Byzantium) agree, was Argoura, not the Suda's Argousa (or in one manuscript Argousai). For Euboia see generally epsilon 3382; for Chalkis see …Matched in noteshighshort
κ319ΚάνωβοςKanobos, Canobus, Kanopos, Canopus… of the city was Menelaus' helmsman K.: Strabo 17.1.17) see Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Kanopos. The city (Barrington Atlas map 74 grid C2) was long sunken. Franck Goddio identified its exact location in the …Matched in noteshighshort
β115Βάρεις ἐλεφάντιναιivory bastions, ivory towers… Psalm 44:10 LXX. [2] For stoa see under beta 114. Stephanus of Byzantium lists a city (of unspecified location) called Baris, adding that the word was also used by Posidippus to mean an oikia …Matched in noteshighshort
ε1339Ἐνιζάνειsettles on… "into a contest".) No such river is otherwise attested, though Stephanus of Byzantium registers an island "of Etruria" called Orgon.Matched in noteshighshort
α1424ἈλύβηAlube, Alybe… 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 in the east, connecting the Chalybes with the …Matched in noteshighshort
α3985ἌρνηArneFrom the scholia to Homer, Iliad 2.507. Stephanus of Byzantium lists 4 'cities' of this name, in various places, but the one the Suda means is unambiguous. According to Pausanias 9.40.5 (web address 1), …Matched in noteshighshort
κ342ΚαπίτωνKapiton, Capito… 750 (= this testimonium plus a group of fragments, from Stephanus of Byzantium's entries on Lycian place-names). [1] "An ill-defined region of the Taurus mountains sandwiched between Pisidia to the west, Lycaonia to the …Matched in noteshighshort
δ869ΔιδυμαῖοςDidymaios, Didymaean, Twin… the joint worship of Apollo and Zeus at Didyma see Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Didyma and Didyme (229.20-230.4).Matched in noteshighshort
α4640ἈφουσίαAphousia… (NW Greece), mentioned in Pliny, Natural History 4.53; cf. also Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Brettia island in the Adriatic, called by the Greeks Elaphoussa. However, much more probably it is present-day Avsa in the …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2453ΚρίτωνKriton, Criton, Crito… (otherwise attested only in the plural in Strabo 9.5.22), in Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. [2] Not even fragments of any of these works survive, and indeed the present entry is the only testimonium pertaining …Matched in noteshighshort
χ60ΧαλύβοιςChalybes, Chalyboi[1] On the Black Sea, near the R.Thermodon, according to Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Chalybes. See Barrington Atlas map 87. (Seemingly unconnected, therefore, with chi 61 (q.v.).) The present headword, a dative plural, must …Matched in noteshighshort
μ229ΜαρσύαςMarsyas… of that name (present-day Davas Kale); for the ethnikon see Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.; RE 4A.2 col.1839. [2] It has been argued that there was no historian of this name from Tabai, the writings …Matched in noteshighshort
αι268ΑἴπειαAipeiaStephanus of Byzantium s.v. registers three poleis of this name, in 'Lakonike', Cyprus and Crete. The first of them is most likely to have generated this Suda entry and its counterparts (Hesychius alpha2045; Ambrosian …Matched in noteshighshort
η51ἭγημαιI considerThe headword verb is the perfect tense of h(geo/mai, which can be present in meaning (see H.Stephanus s.v. with several examples of it). The entry is taken from Photius, Lexicon eta33, where Theodoridis notes …Matched in noteshighshort
α2287Ἀνεπαρίασανthey broke treaties like the Parians… of this proverb (Zenobius 2.21 and other paroemiographers) occurs in Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Paros, quoting Ephorus (FGrH 70 F63). The episode in question is the unsuccessful siege of the Aegean island of Paros …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1551ΔρῦςDrus, Drys… grid B2. There was also a Drys near Priene, and Stephanus of Byzantium cites a city of Oinotria (SE Italy) and a village in Kilikia by an unknown river Aros. The former is probably …Matched in noteshighshort
η132ἨετιώνειαEetioneia, Eetionia… Philochorus (FGrH 328 F72) and Thucydides (8.90-92). [1] (Also in Stephanus of Byzantium and elsewhere.) Meaning "other" than the Akte peninsula; the northerly and lesser of the two promontories which enclosed the Great Harbour. …Matched in noteshighshort
κ9ΚαβύληKabyle, Cabyle… F205, and - for "situated...Thrace" - Anaximenes FGrH 72 F12. Stephanus of Byzantium classifies it as a polis and cites Polybius 13.10. See also Strabo 7.6.2 (320): "above Byzantium is situated the tribe of …Matched in noteshighshort
λ799ΛύκαιονLykaion, Lycaeum… of the Arkadian city mentioned in the preceding note: see Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. But also and more broadly an adjective/epithet meaning 'Arkadian', used especially of Zeus. See LSJ s.v.Matched in noteshighshort
β581Βοίδιονcalf… Anthology 7.169.7-8; cf. Hesychius of Miletus FGrH 390 F1 paras.28-30; Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Bosporos; Kodinos p. 9 (Bonn); Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De thematibus 2.12; Dionysius of Byzantium 110 (ed. Gungreich). For Chares see chi …Matched in noteshighshort
ε768ἘλέαElea… B4. [2] Diogenes Laertius 9.28; cf. zeta 77. [3] cf. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.; also epsilon 734, epsilon 769.Matched in noteshighshort
α3418ἈπολλώνιονApollônion… diphthong is attested in Cassius Dio and discussed by Ps.-Herodian, Stephanus of Byzantium, and (post-Suda) Eusthathius of Thessalonica. [2] That is, like the proper names Dionysios, Demetrios, Poseidonios, etc. [3] Unattested outside lexicography. But …Matched in noteshighshort
ι494ἸωνίαIonia… was held to be the founder of Ephesos; see e.g. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Benna. [3] cf. e.g. Aelian, Varia Historia 8.5 (without mention of Androklos). [4] The Danube. [5] On Darius and the …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2722Κυνὸς σῆμαKynossema, Cynossema, Bitch's gravestonecf. hypothesis to Homer, Odyssey Book 1; Stephanus of Byzantium 394.11 (defining it as 'a place in Libya' but noting that 'there is another location'); and again kappa 2723 (q.v.). In the present entry …Matched in noteshighshort
δ1586ΔυρράχιονDyrrachion, Dyrrachium… nomen Dyrrachium appellata). In this sense too Dexippos, quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium, reports the change of name from Epidamnos to Dyrrachion. But note Strabo 7.5.8: *)Epi/damnos *Kerkurai/wn kti/sma, h( nu=n *Durra/xion o(mwnu/mws th=| …Matched in noteshighshort
α395ἈγχιάλειαAnchialeia… Cilicia; the "Anchiale" of alpha 396 (from sigma 122) and Stephanus of Byzantium. Barrington Atlas map 66 grid F3. [2] This definite article is feminine in the Greek, no doubt presupposing 'city'. [3] Sophocles, …Matched in noteshighshort