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Headword:
*nasamw=nos
Adler number: nu,43
Translated headword: Nasamon's
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name.[1]
Nasamon [is] a proper name, giving rise to [the plural] Nasamones, a Libyan people.[2]
Greek Original:*nasamw=nos: o)/noma ku/rion. o)/noma ku/rion o( *nasamw=n, e)c ou(= *nasamw=nes, e)/qnos *libu/hs.
Notes:
[1] Here in the genitive case, evidently quoted from somewhere; probably from
Herodotus 4.172.2, on which see further, next note.
[2] From
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v. Nasamones. (He is explicit that Nasamon was an actual individual, but this is probably no more than a careless reading of
Herodotus 4.172.2, where
*nasamw=nos a)ndro/s means a
generic 'Nasamonian man'.) For their location see Barrington Atlas maps 37 and 38.
D.J. Mattingly, Tripolitania (Ann Arbor 1994) 28, 33.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 September 2003@09:36:02.
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