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Name of a city in Calabria, which Diomedes [Author, Myth] founded. In his voyage home, when he landed at his own country, he was not received, but was banished and departed for Calabria. There he founded a city which he called Argyrippe, the one which was later named Beneventum.[1]

*benebento/s: o)/noma po/lews *kalabri/as, h(\n kti/zei *diomh/dhs. ei)s ga\r to\n a)po/ploun kataxqei\s ei)s ta\ i)/dia ou)k e)de/xqh, a)lla\ di- wxqei\s a)ph=lqen ei)s *kalabri/an kai\ kti/zei po/lin, h(\n e)ka/lesen *)arguri/pphn, th\n metonomasqei=san *benebento/n.

The source of the entry appears to be John Malalas Chronographia VI.22 Thurn(129), which gives the same account, including the geographical confusion (see next note); cf. Jeffreys, et al.(88). The story is repeated by George Cedrenus, Compendium historiarum 1.234.12-16; cf. alpha 3791 with the note there on location, and delta 1164 (end). See also John of Antioch fr. 49.2 Roberto (114-115). Roberto deems the first sentence of the fragment to be not genuinely Antiochian.
[1] 'Calabria', twice in the entry, is incorrect for Beneventum. This city (present-day Benevento) was in Samnium, in central (not southern) Italy. See generally OCD(4) s.v. (p.229); Barrington Atlas Map 44 grid G3. (There was another Beneventum near Verona.) On the other hand Argyrippe, a.k.a. Argos [Myth, Place] Hippium, was in Apulia, which is at least within striking distance of Calabria. This odd entry appears to be conflating information about two quite different places.

J. Thurn, ed., Ioannis Malalae Chronographia, (Berlin 2000)
E. Jeffreys, M. Jeffreys, and R. Scott, trans., The Chronicle of John Malalas, (Leiden 1986)
U. Roberto, ed., Ioannis Antiocheni Fragmenta ex Historia chronica, (Berlin 2005)

David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords) on 29 December 2003@06:23:03.
David Whitehead (augmented and modified note 1, at the prompting of Nicholas Fincher) on 17 September 2004@08:23:19.
David Whitehead (further expansion of note, ditto) on 17 September 2004@08:29:37.
David Whitehead on 1 August 2011@06:57:01.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 28 May 2012@04:49:49.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 1 August 2014@05:33:11.
David Whitehead on 20 September 2015@04:41:02.
Ronald Allen (expanded primary note, added bibliography) on 6 June 2026@16:12:00.
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