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Headword:
*eu)frh/ths
Adler number: epsilon,3810
Translated headword: Euphretes, Euphrates
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. Another spelling of] the river Euphrates.[1]
Greek Original:*eu)frh/ths: o( *eu)fra/ths potamo/s.
Notes:
The eta-version occurs in
Herodotus and elsewhere.
[1] Rising in Armenia and coursing through
Syria and Iraq before flowing into the Persian Gulf, the Euphrates is the longest river in western Asia; cf. OCD(4) s.v. and Barrington Atlas map 91 grid F5.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 May 2003@08:14:52.
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