Also [sc. attested] is a duso/dhs road.[1]
[Meaning] a rugged [one],[2] [one] having a difficult passage.
*du/sodos. kai\ *duso/dhs o(do/s. traxei=a, dusxerh= dia/basin e)/xousa.
The headword adjective,
du/sodos, appears to be unglossed, but in fact the glossing follows an inserted phrase (on which see n. 1).
[1] This phrase is lacking, Adler reports, in mss FV; and
duso/dhs is an odd adjective found only here. Perhaps an error for
du/sodos o(/dos, as in
Pollux 3.96 (with the same meaning).
[2] From
traxu/s, an adjective used (besides other meanings) to emphasize geographic ruggedness or roughness. Thus it can occur as a toponym. For instance, in
Strabo (12.1.3 and passim) the western part of
Cilicia is
*traxei=a *kiliki/a, “Rough
Cilicia” (web address 1); in
Herodotus 4.99.3 the south-eastern part of the Crimea is called
trhxe/hs (web address 2); and cf.
Pliny the Elder,
Natural History 5.115: "
Ephesus… vocata et
Smyrna est, cognomine Trachia", ("
Ephesus ... is also called
Smyrna, with the appellative of Trachia").
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