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Headword:
*ne/sswn
Adler number: nu,257
Translated headword: Nesson
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A city of Thessaly.[1] [There is] also a Lake Nessonis.[2]
Greek Original:*ne/sswn: po/lis *qessali/as. kai\ li/mnh *nesswni/s.
Notes:
[1] From
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v.; unlocated; see further, next note.
[2] Also in Thessaly: mentioned by (e.g.)
Strabo 9.5.2 & 23, who says that both it and Nesson (which he regards not as a specific toponym but as an early name for Thessaly as a whole) were named after Nesson, a son of Thessalos.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 October 2002@04:32:05.
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