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[Meaning a] level plain next to the sea.[1]
Some people call Piraeus this.[2] It is also an accessible place[3] which once was sea and afterwards became a plain. Hence one must aspirate the first [sc. syllable], for it is as much as to say a plain of salt [a(lo/s]. And some call the coastal plain [of Attica] this. Others [say] that it got its name from the ability for horses to roll [a)lindei=sqai] in it, that is wallow.
See above, under Alex.[4]

*(ali/pedon: o(malo\n e)/dafos para\ th=| qala/ssh|. tine\s de\ to\n *peiraia= fasin. e)/sti de\ kai\ koino\s to/pos, o(\s pa/lai me\n h)=n qa/lassa, au)=qis de\ ge/gone pedi/on. dio\ kai\ dasunte/on th\n prw/thn, e)/sti ga\r oi(=on a(lo\s pedi/on. oi( de\ to\ paraqala/ssion pedi/on ou(/tw kalou=sin. a)/lloi de\ para\ to\ du/nasqai e)n au)tw=| i(/ppous a)lindei=sqai, toute/sti koni/sasqai, th\n o)nomasi/an labei=n. zh/tei o)pi/sw e)n tw=| *)/alhc.

[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius alpha955 Theodoridis; see also Kassel-Austin, PCG II p.145 (on Aristophanes fr. 243).
[2] The immediate source now becomes Harpokration s.v., here abridged.
[3] A koino\s to/pos -- but Harpok. has the adverb koinw=s, i.e. "in common usage it is a place"
[4] alpha 1195. (In fact, though, the cross-reference should be to alpha 1196.)

David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; added note; cosmetics) on 1 October 2000@10:55:41.
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