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Ἀβάντειος
Abanteios, Abantius, Abantian
… provides the only example of it modifying a specific substantive.
Stephanus
of Byzantium in his entry on 'Abantis', an early name for Euboea (cf. Hesiod fr. 296 Merkelbach-West), notes it as the possessive adjective …
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Ἀβαρνίς
Abarnis
… 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 …
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Ἄβδηρα
Abdera
[1] Actually, as
Stephanus
of Byzantium and others noted, there were two cities called Abdera: one, the present-day Avdira, in northern Greece (Barrington Atlas map 51 grid D3; RE I.22-23; OCD(4) s.v.); the other, …
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Ἀβωριγῆνες
Aborigines
… Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 1.9, cited in the long entry in
Stephanus
of Byzantium s.v. (which defines them as an "Italian" people). [1] A marginal addition in ms A.
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Ἀβρεττηνή
Abrettene
… Its name is derived from the nymph Brettia (according to
Stephanus
of Byzantium s.v.), and it lay between the Rhyndakos and Makestos rivers in Asian Mysia (present-day Turkey): Barrington Atlas map 62 grid A2. …
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Ἀγχιάλεια
Anchialeia
… 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, …
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Γαβαώ
Gabao, Gabaon, Gibeon
… Gibeon. This is perhaps the origin (via ps.-Herodian 3.1.93.7) of
Stephanus
of Byzantium's reference to a city in Galilee called "Gabaoupolis", with an ethnikon "Gabaoupolites"; he cites Josephus, who in fact refers (Jewish Antiquities …
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Γάγγρα
Gangra
… 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 in Arabia (192.24).
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