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Headword:
Aornos
Adler number: alpha,2849
Translated headword: Aornos, Bird-less
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [The name of a] rock in India. Arrian [writes]: "for there is some large sort of rock in this territory".[1]
There is also a lake called by this name.[2]
"Alexander took it, the rock that Herakles had found no way up".[3]
Greek Original:Aornos: petra en têi Indikêi. Arrianos: mega gar ti chrêma petras en têi chôrai tautêi estin. esti de kai limnê houtô kaloumenê. tautên Alexandros heilen, hê tôi Hêraklei aporos egeneto hê petra.
Notes:
[1] Arrian,
Anabasis 4.28.1.
[2] Mention of this lake interrupts the material about the Aornos rock. An Aornos lake is also noted in other lexica, and the allusion is doubtless to the lake (formed by a volcanic crater) at
Puteoli on the Bay of Naples (see e.g.
Strabo 5.4.5, with comment on its birdlessness), Virgil's Avernus.
[3] Arrian,
Anabasis 4.30.4, paraphrased.
A.B. Bosworth, A Commentary on Arrian's History of Alexander, 2 (Oxford 1995) 178-181.
Keywords: biography; definition; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; mythology; poetry
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 29 November 2000@01:17:07.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified headword, translation, notes; added bibliography and keyword) on 29 November 2000@05:54:49.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 16 August 2002@05:19:47.
David Whitehead (another note, prompted by Nicholas Fincher; another keyword; cosmetics) on 17 September 2004@04:39:27.
David Whitehead on 21 March 2012@09:39:42.
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