Συλλαῖος
Syllaios, Syllaeus
Translated by David Whitehead11 Jul 2007Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Συλλαῖος· ὄνομα κύριον. καὶ Σύλαιον, πόλις.
Betacode
*sullai=os: o)/noma ku/rion. kai\ *su/laion, po/lis.
Notes (2)
- 1That of e.g. the treacherous (from a Roman perspective) administrator of the Nabataean Arabs: Strabo 16.4.22-24, 17.1.53; Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 1.487 and passim; G.W. Bowersock, Augustus and the Greek World (Oxford 1965) 56, 57, 136. ↩
- 2Not otherwise attested in this form; perhaps a variant of Syllion (sigma 1342) or the Phrygian 'Syleion' in Stephanus of Byzantium. ↩
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- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- augmented n.1 and keywords — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead