Σιμόεις

Simoeis

Translated by Nicholas Fincher6 Aug 2003Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 14 words

A name of a river.¹ And from it [sc. comes the phrase] 'Simoeisian plain'.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Σιμόεις· ὄνομα ποταμοῦ. καὶ ἐξ αὐτοῦ Σιμοείσιον πεδίον.

Betacode

*simo/eis: o)/noma potamou=. kai\ e)c au)tou= *simoei/sion pedi/on.

1Well-known from Homer (e.g. Iliad 5.774 [alpha 1209] and 777, 12.22) and elsewhere; a river in the environs of Troy, NW Turkey. ↩
2Homer uses the adjective, but not in this phrase, for which see Strabo 13.1.34. ↩

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