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Headword: *spora/des nh=soi
Adler number: sigma,961
Translated headword: Sporades, Scattered Islands
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[The ones] which some call Cyclades, those in the Aegean [Sea]. They are 12 [in number].
Greek Original:
*spora/des nh=soi: a(\s e)/nioi *kukla/das le/gousin, ai( e)n tw=| *ai)gai/w|. ei)si\ de\ ib#.
Note:
The best ancient geographers actually distinguished between the Sporades in the S Aegean and the Cyclades further north, and it was the latter which numbered 12 (or 15); see e.g. Strabo 10.4.1, 10.5.3 and 14 (web address 1). For modern usage see OCD4 pp.401-2.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; geography
Translated by: David Whitehead on 4 November 2001@07:58:02.
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Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 29 December 2004@19:33:01.
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