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Headword:
*nikomh/deia
Adler number: nu,400
Translated headword: Nikomedeia, Nicomedia
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A city [of that name].[1]
The one once called
Olbia; but it changed its name, they say, to [that of] Nikomedes the son of Zielas; because of the fame of both him and his city it took its name from him, and those after him [sc. were called] Nikomedians, just as from the first Pharaoh those after him shared in the same name. It seems that a namesake of
Nikomedeia is also the port in
Bithynia, Nikomedeion; its topikon [is] not only Nikomedeus but they say that it can also be Nikomedeieus. A citizen of
Nikomedeia was the famous rhetor Arrian.[2]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'Nikomedian ship'.[3]
*nikomh/deia: po/lis. h( kai\ *)olbi/a pote klhqei=sa: parwno/mastai de/ fasi *nikomh/dei tw=| tou= *zih/la paidi/: e)c e)kei/nou de\ dia\ to\ kai\ au)tou= kai\ th=s kat' au)to\n po/lews dia/shmon e)kalei=to, kai\ oi( met' au)to\n *nikomhdei=s, kaqa\ kai\ a)po\ tou= prw/tou *faraw\ oi( met' e)kei=non tou= au)tou= e)klhrono/moun o)no/matos: dokei= de\ th=s *nikomhdei/as parw/numon ei)=nai kai\ to\ e)n *biquni/a| *nikomh/deion e)mpo/rion au)to\ *biquni/as: ou(= topiko\n ou) mo/non *nikomhdeu/s, a)lla\ du/natai fasi\ ei)=nai kai\ *nikomhdeieu/s. h)=n de\ th=s *nikomhdei/as poli/ths o( periw/numos r(h/twr *)arriano/s. kai\ *nikomhdi\s nau=s.
Notes:
[1] Present-day Izmit, in the extreme eastern Propontis (Sea of Marmara). See generally OCD4 Nicomedia; Barrington Atlas map 52 grid F3.
[2] This material is paralleled in
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v.
Nikomedeia and s.v. Nikomedeion (but includes detail that
Stephanus does not). For Arrian see
alpha 3868; and cf.
alpha 4739 for another (possible) Nikomedian.
[3] See
nu 69 (and
nu 74).
Translated by: David Whitehead on 8 September 2008@05:02:50.
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