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Headword: *(uda/sphs
Adler number: upsilon,37
Translated headword: Hydaspes
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Name of a river.
Greek Original:
*(uda/sphs: o)/noma potamou=.
Notes:
In the Punjab (India); the present-day Jhelum; Barrington Atlas Map 6 grid C3.
Best known for being the site of the battle of 326 BCE in which Alexander the Great defeated the rajah Poros (pi 2180). See also Horace, Odes 1.22.8 (web address 1).
Same entry in some other lexica, including (according to Adler) the Ambrosian Lexicon.
Reference:
OCD(4) p.714.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; geography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 9 May 2001@03:40:37.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (Set status) on 9 May 2001@13:41:30.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 13 June 2004@10:41:55.
David Whitehead (another note; raised status) on 2 February 2011@05:44:33.
David Whitehead on 5 August 2014@06:23:55.
David Whitehead on 29 May 2016@10:14:46.
Catharine Roth (added a note with link) on 6 November 2022@17:52:47.
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