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Headword:
Dekateutêrion
Adler number: delta,184
Translated headword: tithe-station, customs-house
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the ferry-crossing at
Abydos.[1] "So immediately he is maltreating
Abydos and the customs-house there".[2]
Greek Original:Dekateutêrion: to en têi Abudôi porthmeion. hôs euthus tên Abudon lumaneitai kai to en autêi dekateutêrion.
Notes:
The headword, a neuter noun in the nominative/accusative singular, is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] For
Abydos, on the Asiatic side of the Hellespont straits, see generally
alpha 101. It was ideally positioned to tax passing shipping; compare e.g.
Xenophon,
Hellenica 1.1.22 (web address 1) on the
dekateuterion at Chrysopolis (opposite
Byzantium) in the late C5 BCE.
[2]
Agathias,
Histories 5.12.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 18 October 2000@04:27:45.
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