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Headword:
*maiw=tis
Adler number: mu,344
Translated headword: Maiotis, Maeotis
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A lake of Scythia.
Greek Original:*maiw=tis: li/mnh *skuqi/as.
Note:
(See already
mu 342; also (?)
mu 339,
mu 340.) "Lake" Maiotis is the present-day Sea of Azov, at the top of the Black Sea and joined to it by the Cimmerian Bosporus (present-day Straits of Kerch). See generally OCD(4) Maeotis (p.884).
Keywords: definition; geography
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 September 2001@08:44:38.
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