Τεγεσταῖοι
Tegestaians, Tegestaeans, Tergestaians, Tergestaeans
Translated by Nicholas Fincher30 Jul 2003Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Name of a people. Also [sc. attested is] a feminine form Tegeste, a name of a city.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τεγεσταῖοι· ὄνομα ἔθνους. καὶ θηλυκὸν Τεγέστη, ὄνομα πόλεως.
Betacode
*tegestai=oi: o)/noma e)/qnous. kai\ qhluko\n *tege/sth, o)/noma po/lews.
Notes
- The headword is transmitted as Tegesthaioi in one manuscript. But note Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Tegestra: 'neuter [sic!], a city of Illyria near Aquileia... The citizen [of it is a] Tegestraios'. (He mentions an alternative form Tergestron.) And this in turn clearly stems from Strabo 5.1.9: 'the stronghold Tergeste, a distance of 180 stades from Aquileia'. Tergeste -- the authentic form -- is the present-day Trieste. See Barrington Atlas map 19 grid F4, map 20 grid A4.
cf. tau 336.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 18 Mar 2014
- x-ref — David Whitehead
- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- modified headword and note; added keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Nicholas Fincher