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Headword: *)orxa/des
Adler number: omicron,665
Translated headword: Orchades, Orkades, Orkneys
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[The names of certain] islands near Ocean.
Greek Original:
*)orxa/des: nh=soi peri\ to\n *)wkeano/n.
Notes:
Known to (e.g.) Pliny, Natural History 4.103 (web address 1). The name derives from Celtic orci, piglets.
cf. Eutropius, Breviarium 7.13, where it is asserted that Claudius absorbed the Orchades/Orkades into the Roman Empire. (If this outlandish claim goes back to Claudius himself, it has been suggested that Tacitus, Agricola 10.4 [web address 2] is a riposte to it; cf. also Juvenal, Satires 2.160-1 [web address 3].)
For 'Ocean' cf. omega 43, omega 44.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 16 April 2003@09:27:24.
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