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Headword:
Buzantion
Adler number: beta,588
Translated headword: Byzantion, Byzantium
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Byzantion in the reign of
Severus, emperor of the Romans, was provided with a proper wall made of mill stone carved into rectangular blocks. There were seven towers stretching from the Thracian Gates down to the sea. If someone shouted or broke off a piece of stone in the first of these, it would echo and babble and cause the second one to do the same; and thus it would proceed through all of them.[1]
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Byzantion under '
Severus'.[2]
Greek Original:Buzantion: hoti to Buzantion epi Sebêrou basileôs Rhômaiôn teteichisto gennaiôi teichei pepoiêmenôi mulitêi lithôi, es tetragônon eirgasmenôi. z# men gar êsan apo tôn Thraikiôn pulôn purgoi pros tên thalassan kathêkontes. toutôn de ên tis tôi prôtôi eneboêse ti ê lithon errêxen, autos te êchei kai elalei kai tôi deuterôi touto poiein paredidou, kai houtôs dia pantôn echôrei. zêtei en tôi Sebêros peri Buzantiou platuteron.
Notes:
[1] For this second sentence cf.
Cassius Dio 74.14.5-6;
Hesychius of Miletus FGrH 390 F1 para.13; Cedrenus p. 442, 10-11 Bonn.
[2]
sigma 181.
Translated by: William Hutton on 22 April 2002@16:59:56.
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