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Headword:
*brenth/sion
Adler number: beta,533
Translated headword: Brentesion, Brundisium, Brindisi
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A region of Italy. It is so called because it has harbours like the horns of a stag; and Messapians call the stag a brendos.[1]
Greek Original:*brenth/sion: xw/ra th=s *)itali/as: ei)/rhtai de\ ou(/tws, o(/ti lime/nas e)/xei ke/rasin e)la/fou paraplhsi/ous. bre/ndon de\ kalou=si th\n e)/lafon *mesa/ppioi
Notes:
OCD(4) p.253, under
Brundisium.
[1]
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v., following
Strabo 6.3.6, is more exact:
brention (sic) was their name for the head of a stag. (
Stephanus also offers an alternative etymology, from Herakles Brentos.) For the Messapians (here "Mesappians"), the principal non-Greek people of Calabria, see generally OCD(4) p.937; it is preceded there by an article on the Messapic language.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 14 June 2001@05:21:56.
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