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Headword:
*nhsw/ph
Adler number: nu,344
Translated headword: Nesope
Vetting Status: high
Translation: An island of
Lesbos, which, they say, makes the harbour [called] Sigris.
*nhsw/ph: nh=sos *le/sbou, to\n *si/grin, fasi/, lime/na poiou=sa.
Notes:
From
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v.; also in ps-Herodian. (Entry lacking, Adler reports, in ms F.).
Nesope (present-day Nesiope or Megalonisi) lay off the extreme west of
Lesbos, across a bay in which Sigron (sic) was the principal town and Cape Sigrion the southern landmark: see Barrington Atlas map 56 grid B3.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 December 2000@10:45:04.
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