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Headword: *sw=sis
Adler number: sigma,862
Translated headword: Sosis
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A proper name.
Greek Original:
*sw=sis: o)/noma ku/rion.
Notes:
Syracusans of this name appear in in Xenophon, Anabasis 1.2.9 and Plutarch, Dion 34-35; given the fifty-year gap they are presumably father and son, or grandfather and grandson. And for a late-C3 Sosis in Syracuse see Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 6.251F [6.59 Kaibel] (parasite of the tyrant Hieronymos).
Also the name of an early king of Egypt.
Keywords: biography; definition; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; politics
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 December 2002@05:56:49.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 31 March 2004@13:23:47.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 1 April 2004@09:10:49.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 19 August 2011@05:08:34.
David Whitehead on 15 January 2015@09:18:04.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 21 January 2015@02:01:14.
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