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Headword:
Benebentos
Adler number: beta,237
Translated headword: Beneventos, Beneventum, Benevento
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Name of a city in Calabria, which Diomedes [
Author,
Myth] founded. In his voyage home, when he landed at his own country, he was not received, but was banished and departed for Calabria. There he founded a city which he called Argyrippe, the one which was later named
Beneventum.[1]
Benebentos: onoma poleôs Kalabrias, hên ktizei Diomêdês. eis gar ton apoploun katachtheis eis ta idia ouk edechthê, alla di- ôchtheis apêlthen eis Kalabrian kai ktizei polin, hên ekalesen Argurippên, tên metonomastheisan Benebenton.
Notes:
= George Cedrenus,
Compendium historiarum 1.234.12-16; cf.
alpha 3791 with the note there on location, and
delta 1164 (end).
[1] 'Calabria', twice in the entry, is incorrect for
Beneventum. This city (present-day Benevento) was in Samnium, in central (not southern) Italy. See generally OCD(4) s.v. (p.229); Barrington Atlas Map 44 grid G3. (There was another
Beneventum near
Verona.) On the other hand Argyrippe, a.k.a. Argos [
Myth,
Place] Hippium, was in Apulia, which is at least within striking distance of Calabria. This odd entry appears to be conflating information about two quite different places.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 29 December 2003@01:47:13.
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