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3805
Ἀρδεᾶται
Ardeatai, Ardeati, Ardeates
Strabo
5.3.4 and Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Ardea give this as the ethnikon of Ardea in Latium (central Italy). See generally OCD(4) p.145, s.v. Ardea.
Strabo
7.5.1 mentions an Ardea or Ardia in Dalmatia, …
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3881
Ἄριμα
Arima
… Byzantium s.v., noting that their location was disputed: Cilicia (so
Strabo
13.4.6), Syria, or even Italy. [2] Perhaps an ape-god, to judge from the etymology (cf.
Strabo
13.4.6), though cf. LSJ s.v. Areimanios, II …
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3963
Ἅρμα
Harma
Harma, in the mountains between Attica and Boiotia
(Strabo
9.2.11 calls it "in Boiotia"), was a place where lightning-omens were watched for; the proverb from it (besides
Strabo
loc.cit. see Plutarch, Moralia 679C) thus …
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2
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
rhetoric
1
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1
tragedy
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523
Ἀδράστεια Νέμεσις
Adrasteian Nemesis, Nemesis of Adrastos
… goddess as Adrasteia." For the temple to Adrasteia Nemesis, see
Strabo
13.1.13.
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659
Ἀηνόβαρβος
Ahenobarbus
… the Ambrosian Lexicon. The Greek here (examples in Appian, Plutarch,
Strabo
and Cassius Dio) transliterates the Latin Ahenobarbus, the cognomen of one branch of the plebeian-noble Roman family of the Domitii. (For six of …
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706
Ἀθᾶνες
Athanes
… corruption of? -- the Athamanes of NW Greece, extinct by
Strabo's
day (7.7.1 & 8, 9.4.11 & 17, etc.)
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714
Ἀθέμιστα
lawless [things]
… Aelian fr. 198 Domingo-Forasté, 195 Hercher (again at pi 1549).
Strabo
13.3.4 provides more details: "it is at the Phryconian Larisa that Piasos is said to have been honoured; he, they say, was ruler …
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1008
Ἀκρολοφία
high-crest, mountain-ridge
… interest of lexicographers -- and attested thereafter in (e.g.) Polybius,
Strabo
and Diodorus Siculus.
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1179
Ἀλήϊον πεδίον
Aleian plain
… 6.201) in Lycia but more exactly in Cilicia (Herodotus 6.95.1;
Strabo
14.5.17 (676); Arrian, Anabasis 2.5.8; Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Halai), literally means "wandering" - though Steph. Byz. derived the adjective, more prosaically, from …
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1424
Ἀλύβη
Alube, Alybe
… location generated different views, as can be seen 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 …
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1438
Ἁλυσείδιον
chain-mail
… For chain-mail corslets see e.g. Polybius 6.23.15, Diodorus Siculus 5.30.3,
Strabo
3.3.6. There and in general the adjective and its cognate headword are more usually a(lusi-.
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2371
Ἀνεῖλεν
prophesied, took up, took away, killed
… Plutarch, Themistocles 2. [4] Ephorus FGrH 70 F150 (quoted in
Strabo
8.6.14) and Pausanias 2.33.2. The text there has Kalaureian for Kalabrian. See web address 2, and kappa 188. [5] See note 1 above. …
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2579
Ἄνω
up
… see in brief OCD(4) p.878); cf. "city of Makar" in
Strabo
8.3.31 and esp. 13.1.7, where this line is quoted.
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2589
Ἀνῳκισμένος
settled up-country
… at Photius alpha2170 Theodoridis. For the latter sense see e.g.
Strabo
13.4.6 (accusative plural).
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2849
Ἄορνος
Aornos, Bird-less
… crater) at Puteoli on the Bay of Naples (see e.g.
Strabo
5.4.5, with comment on its birdlessness), Virgil's Avernus. [3] Arrian, Anabasis 4.30.4, paraphrased.
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2895
Ἀπανισταμένους
having been forced to emigrate from
… is evidently quoted from somewhere; there are instances in (e.g.)
Strabo,
Philostratus, and Gregory of Nazianzus; and see also under epsilon 3646.
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3364
Ἀποκόπους
castrated men
… plural, must be quoted from somewhere. [1] So in e.g.
Strabo
13.4.14. [2] Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
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3791
Ἀργυρίππη
Argyrippe
… was also in Italy but further south, in Apulia. See
Strabo
6.3.9; Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Spelling with a single p is more common. Chief city of the Daunians and also known as Argos …
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3949
Ἀρκαῖος
Arcaeus, Arkaios
Apparently unattested outside lexicography. (In
Strabo
12.8.14 the deity "Men Arkaios" in Pisidian Antioch is thought to be a corruption of "Aska-enos".)
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3985
Ἄρνη
Arne
… settlement later (and better) known as Chaeroneia (chi 176), but
Strabo
9.2.35 mentions a view that it had been submerged under Lake Kopais. Hansen 433 n.2 classifies it as 'a mythical toponym, not even …
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4130
Ἀσβαμαῖον
Asbamaion, Asbamian
… Meineke's suggested emendation from *dio\s *dakih/ou to *dio\s *)asbamai/ou in
Strabo
12.2.6.)
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4160
Ἀσκανία
Askania, Ascania
… city of Nicaea; Barrington Atlas map 52 grid E4; cf.
Strabo
12.4.5 & 8, 14.5.29. It was also a territory closely related to Phrygia, providing one of the Phrygian leaders in the Trojan War …
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4169
Ἄσκησις
asceticism
… the headword (others are attested: see alpha 4170) see e.g.
Strabo
15.1.61 (Brahmans) and generally LSJ s.v., under III.2 (web address 1).
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4296
Ἀσφαλτῖτις λίμνη
Bituminous Lake
… the Dead Sea: see e.g. Diodorus Siculus 19.98, cf. 2.48.6;
Strabo
16.2.42. For "dessicative," see xi 64. [1] alpha 470. (Adiabene is in present-day Iraq, i.e. a different location for bitumen.)
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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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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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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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