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Headword: *)abretthnh/
Adler number: alpha,75
Translated headword: Abrettene
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A territory, the one [sc. also] called Mysia.
Greek Original:
*)abretthnh/: xw/ra, h( legome/nh *musi/a.
Notes:
Comparably, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon.
Abrettene is mentioned by Strabo and Arrian, amongst others. Its name is derived from the nymph Brettia (according to Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.), and it lay between the Rhyndakos and Makestos rivers in Asian Mysia (present-day Turkey): Barrington Atlas map 62 grid A2.
For Mysia see also mu 1472 and further cross-references there.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; religion
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 26 August 1998@19:30:35.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (Added headword, cosmetics, set status) on 31 January 2001@13:04:28.
David Whitehead (augmented note; added keywords) on 24 April 2002@03:33:13.
Nicholas Fincher (added note) on 23 July 2003@01:55:35.
David Whitehead (added x-ref; cosmetics) on 23 July 2003@03:35:24.
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 1 August 2011@07:45:16.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 6 March 2016@09:05:36.
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