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*)iaza/rths
Adler number: iota,5
Translated headword: Iazartes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. Another name for] the river Tanais.
Greek Original:*)iaza/rths: o( *ta/nai+s potamo/s.
Notes:
On the river (and similarly-named city) Tanais or Don, at the top of the Black Sea, see generally D.C. Braund in OCD(4) 1430.
The spelling 'Iaxartes' (or Jaxartes) was more common.
Due to a geographical confusion, the Syr Darya in present-day Kazakhstan was thought to be the source of the Don and also called the Iaxartes and Tanais. Other names for it were Iaxartes, Silis, Tanais, Araxes, Laxates, Orexartes, Oxyartes.
Keyword: geography
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 12 December 1999@14:14:09.
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