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Headword:
*)albanoi/
Adler number: alpha,1090
Translated headword: Albanoi, Albani, Albanians
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The name of a nation of Gauls. They say that the land of these people is rich and good for producing crops and that it provides sweet wine aplenty.
Greek Original:*)albanoi/: o)/noma e)/qnous *galatw=n. tou/twn fasi\ th\n gh=n eu)dai/mona kai\ karpou\s e)negkei=n ou)=san a)gaqh/n, oi)=non h(du\n kai\ polu\n e)/xousan.
Note:
See also under
alpha 2330 (=
sigma 10),
kappa 929,
kappa 1307,
pi 2024. Probably refers not to present-day Albania but to a people who lived on the coast of the Caspian sea; cf.
Strabo 11.14.1 (web address 1);
Pliny,
Natural History 6.38; and see generally OCD(4) s.v. Albania.
Web address 1
Keywords: agriculture; botany; definition; food; geography
Translated by: William Hutton on 24 April 2001@13:54:26.
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