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Headword:
*pa/dos
Adler number: pi,19
Translated headword: Pados, Padus, Po
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Name of a river, the one called Eridanos amongst Greeks.
Greek Original:*pa/dos: o)/noma potamou=, tou= par' *(/ellhsin *)hridanou= o)nomazome/nou.
Notes:
The longest river in Italy (c.400 miles); cf. Barrington Atlas map 40 grid A2. See generally OCD4 Padus.
For the name Eridanos see
eta 516, again at
iota 597. The earliest detailed description of the Po is in
Polybius 2.16.6 (web address 1), and Walbank
ad loc. (178-9) briefly discusses the Pados/Eridanos connection, which is more complex than the Suda suggests. Early writers (Hesiod,
Herodotus) applied the name Eridanos to a fabulous amber-producing river; later this was thought to be near, rather than identical with, the Po (still so in e.g.
Strabo 5.1.9); the simple identification, probably attributable to Apollonius of
Rhodes, never ousted alternatives.
F.W.Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, i (Oxford 1957 and reprints)
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Web address 1
Keywords: definition; geography
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 June 2001@08:40:33.
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