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Headword:
*ni=nos
Adler number: nu,417
Translated headword: Ninos, Ninus, Nineveh
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This [is] an Assyrian city, founded by Ninos, the husband of Semiramis, in Atouria.[1] The ethnikon [is] Ninian. This is used in
Herodotus, in the phrase "at the so-called Gates of [the] Ninians".[2]
*ni=nos: po/lis *)assuri/wn au(/th, h(\n e)/ktise *ni=nos, a)nh\r *semira/midos, e)n th=| *)atouri/a|. e)qniko\n *ni/nios. xrh=sis tou/tou para\ *(hrodo/tw| e)n tw=|, kata\ ta\s *nini/wn kaleome/nas pu/las.
Notes:
OCD4 Nineveh(1). Another spelling of the city-name at
nu 415.
[1] The entry takes over "Atouria" from
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v.; one of the mss of Steph. has "Assyria", but Atouria is more precise (see
Strabo 16.1.1-3).
[2]
Herodotus 3.155.5 (web address 1).
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; geography; historiography; history; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 December 2000@11:30:20.
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