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Dyrrachion, Dyrrachium
A city, the one (?)later called Epidamnos; but now again called Dyrrachion because, in accordance with its geographic position, with a crested promontory jutting out, the swell, striking and splitting up, creates a big…
Δυρράχιον· πόλις, ἡ ὕστερον κληθεῖσα Ἐπίδαμνος· πάλιν δὲ νῦν καλουμένη Δυρράχιον, ὅτι κατὰ τὸν τόπον προεχούσης ἄκρας γεωλόφου τὸ κῦμα προσπίπτον καὶ σχιζόμενον ῥαχίαν ποιεῖ…
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