Σκῆψις

Skepsis, Scepsis

Translated by David Whitehead19 Dec 2000Vetting: high5 revisions

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It is a city in Trojan [territory]; Demosthenes mentions it in the [speech] Against Aristokrates¹.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Σκῆψις· πόλις ἐστὶν ἐν τῇ Τροίᾳ· ἧς μνημονεύει Δημοσθένης ἐν τῷ κατὰ Ἀριστοκράτους.

Betacode

*skh=yis: po/lis e)sti\n e)n th=| *troi/a|: h(=s mnhmoneu/ei *dhmosqe/nhs e)n tw=| kata\ *)aristokra/tous.

From Harpokration s.v., who besides Demosthenes cites Ephorus FGrH 70 F67 for the information given.
OCD4 Scepsis.
Barrington Atlas map 56 grid D2; present-day Kursunlu Tepe, in Turkey.
1Demosthenes 23.154 (web address 1). ↩

J.M. Cook, The Troad: an archaeological and topographical survey (Oxford 1973) 345-7

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