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Headword: *kri/ssa
Adler number: kappa,2440
Translated headword: Krissa, Krisa, Crisa
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A name of a city.[1]
Also a [kind of] fish.[2]
Greek Original:
*kri/ssa: o)/noma po/lews. kai\ i)xqu/s.
Notes:
[1] The spelling Krissa is used by the Suda and Hecataeus (fragment 115b in Eustathius) but the spelling Krisa is more common. A city variously deemed in Phokis or (Epiknemidian) Lokris in the valley below Delphi (modern central Greece). The Krisaian Gulf (in the Korinthian Gulf) is named after it. Sometimes conflated with its port city of Kirra/Kirrha/Cirrha.
[2] Unidentifiable.
Keywords: definition; geography; historiography; zoology
Translated by: Nicholas Fincher on 31 July 2003@00:19:40.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 31 July 2003@04:11:54.
David Whitehead on 27 July 2011@06:23:21.
David Whitehead on 18 March 2013@05:22:29.
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