A Thracian polis near
Athos, [the] citizen of which
Herodotus, having written[1], they say, about Nymphs and sacred things[2], [calls an] Olophyxian.[3]
*)olo/fucos: *qra|ki/a po/lis peri\ *)/aqwn, h(=s poli/ths *(hro/dotos *)olofu/cios peri\ *numfw=n w(/s fasi gra/yai kai\ i(erw=n.
On the easternmost of the three promontories of Chalkidike (
alpha 745,
alpha 749); cf. Barrington Atlas map 51 grid C4.
[1] Reading the participle
gra/yas (as in
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v.) for the transmitted infinitive
gra/yai.
[2] "Gods" in Steph. Byz.
[3] Even with emendation (see the preceding notes), the gloss is unintelligible as it stands, both here and in its immediate source, Steph. Byz. [
Herodotus, as transmitted, uses the toponym itself (7.22.3) but never the ethnikon.]
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