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Headword:
*me/ndh
Adler number: mu,593
Translated headword: Mende
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Menda[1] is one city of those on
Pellene,[2] founded by Eretrians.
Greek Original:*me/ndh: po/lis mi/a tw=n e)n *pellh/nh| *me/nda, u(po\ *)eretrie/wn w)|kisme/nh.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., commenting on its mention in
Demosthenes 35.10 & 20. The gloss as a whole echoes
Thucydides 4.123.1.
cf.
mu 592.
[1] sic! (Here, not in Harpok.) Its name was perhaps originally Minde. The Elder
Pliny uses Mendae (
Natural History 4.36). See RE 15.777-79.
[2] For Pallene (sic), the name of the western of the three prongs of Chalcidice, see under
pi 78.
Reference:
OCD4 s.v.
Keywords: definition; geography; historiography; history; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 December 2000@06:24:32.
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