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Δουλίχιος
Doulichios, Doulichion, Dolicha, Doliche, Dulichium
… name given here is a mistake; it was Doulichion (Homer,
Strabo,
Pausanias, Stephanus of Byzantium), when not Dolicha/Doliche. NF adds: Doulichion in Homer seems to be a substantial island and (controversially; cf.
Strabo
10.2.10, …
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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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β
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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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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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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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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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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849
Ἑλίκη
Helike, Helice
… northern Peloponnese). Destroyed by a tidal wave in 373/2 BCE
(Strabo
1.3.18, 8.7.2 etc.), it is one of the less implausible candidates for identification with Plato's Atlantis.
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1272
Ἐνετοί
Enetoi, Enetians
… Paphlagonia (in N Asia Minor) to NE Italy. See e.g.
Strabo
12.3.8. [1] Very unusually, Adler printed here her own emendation; the paradosis is 'a people' (ethnos).
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1936
Ἐπακτρία χώρα
Epaktrian territory
… also in other lexica -- bears some general resemblance to
Strabo
9.1.20, which cites Philochorus FGrH 328 F94 on the twelve ancient poleis of Attica, but there is extra, implausible detail. [1] For Kekrops …
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2876
Ἐποίκιον
farmstead, outhouse, village
… here is uncertain, as the quotation is unidentifiable. cf. generally
Strabo
11.3.1: "Iberia is for the most part well settled with both cities and epoikia...".
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61
Χαλυβώνιος οἶνος
Chalybonian wine
… since the Persians had introduced viticulture there'. (Also mentioned by
Strabo,
Plutarch, and others.) The two sites implied here may be reflected in the two locations noted in the Barrington Atlas: a city called …
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389
Χόνας
Chones
… omicron instead of the more authentic omega (as in e.g.
Strabo
6.1.2 and 4, web address 1). Neighbours of the Oenotrians, in S Italy.
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437
Χωράσμιος
Chorasmios, Chorasmian
… extent, at any rate, of being an inhabitant of Chorasmia
(Strabo
11.8.8 [web address 1]; Lucian, Macrobii 4.9), south of the Aral Sea.
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