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Headword:
*)epi/neion
Adler number: epsilon,2489
Translated headword: sea-port
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. So called] from the fact that merchant ships are launched in it[1] and beached. Alternatively, a small town by the sea, where the cities have their dockyards; just as
Peiraieus [is] that of the Athenians and
Nisaia that of the Megarid. It is possible for the word to be used of every port and coastal [town] which now most people call a
kata/bolos ["naval station"].
*)epi/neion: para\ to\ e)n au)tw=| nh/xesqai ta\s o(lka/das kai\ o)ke/llein. h)\ po/lisma paraqala/ssion, e)/nqa ta\ new/ria tw=n po/lew/n ei)sin: w(/sper *peiraieu\s tw=n *)aqhnai/wn kai\ *ni/saia th=s *megari/dos. du/natai de\ e)pi\ panto\s e)mpori/ou kai\ paraqalassi/ou xrh/sasqai tw=| o)no/mati tou/tw|, o(\ nu=n oi( polloi\ kata/bolon kalou=sin.
Notes:
See also the preceding entry,
epsilon 2488. The present one draws on material in the
scholia to
Thucydides 1.30.2 and, first, 2.84.5.
[1] The suggested connection works only in Greek (the noun
e)pi/neion and the infinitive
nh/xesqai), and not very convincingly even there.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 14 November 2000@08:12:06.
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