Ankura: polis: zêtei en tôi Galatai.
OCD(4) p.84.
[1] As 'Ankara', the capital of present-day Turkey. The city lies in the northwestern part of Anatolia, about 125 miles south of the Black Sea. According to
Pausanias (1.4), Ankyra was founded by Midas.
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v. Ankyra ( = Apollonius of
Aphrodisias FGrH 740 F14) traces the name of the city to the anchors (
ankyra) captured by the Galatians when they defeated the Ptolemaic navy in the Black Sea in the 260s BCE. However, since the city was called Ankyra when Alexander the Great visited it (Arrian
Anabasis 2.4.1),
Stephanus' report is obviously incorrect.
[2]
gamma 21. ['Galatai' is Adler's own emendation of the unsatisfactory paradosis here.] See also
alpha 259.
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