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Headword: *stro/mfides nh=soi
Adler number: sigma,1212
Translated headword: Stromphides islands, Strophades islands
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. The ones] lying between Zakynthos and Ilias.[1]
Greek Original:
*stro/mfides nh=soi: metacu\ *zaku/nqou kai\ *)ili/ados kei/menai.
Notes:
i.e. (well) off the west coast of the Peloponnese (Greece). Strabo 8.4.2 more accurately says that they are two islands c.400 stadia (c.45 miles) offshore.
Omitted from the Barrington Atlas, as that publication subsequently acknowledged.
This entry is abridged from the equivalent one in Harpokration, commenting on their appearance in Dinarchus fr. XII.6 Conomis. Besides the error noted in n.1 below, the toponym itself is here corrupted from Strophades to Stromphides (or in one manuscipt Strombides).
[1] No, Elis (*)/hlidos): Harpok.
Keywords: definition; geography; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 December 2000@09:19:05.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 14 January 2005@00:37:19.
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented note and keywords) on 14 January 2005@03:30:17.
David Whitehead (adjusted betacoding) on 14 January 2005@07:31:45.
Catharine Roth (tried again to adjust the betacode) on 14 January 2005@16:59:52.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 14 July 2011@08:31:01.
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