A proper name.[1] Also [sc. attested is] Sylaion, a city.[2]
*sullai=os: o)/noma ku/rion. kai\ *su/laion, po/lis.
[1] That of e.g. the treacherous (from a Roman perspective) administrator of the Nabataean Arabs:
Strabo 16.4.22-24, 17.1.53;
Josephus,
Antiquities of the Jews 1.487 and passim; G.W. Bowersock,
Augustus and the Greek World (Oxford 1965) 56, 57, 136.
[2] Not otherwise attested in this form; perhaps a variant of Syllion (
sigma 1342) or the Phrygian 'Syleion' in
Stephanus of
Byzantium.
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