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Headword:
Kerasous
Adler number: kappa,1375
Translated headword: Kerasous, Cerasus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "A Greek city by the sea, a colony of
Sinope."[1]
[Note] that
Karia [is] an obscure word for "head". Hence also
kerata ["horns"].[2]
Greek Original:Kerasous: polis Hellênis epi têi thalattêi, Sinôpeôn apoikos. hoti Karia hê kephalê kata glôssan. hothen kai kerata.
Notes:
[1]
Xenophon,
Anabasis 5.3.2 (web address 1). There were actually two cities of this name on the southern shore of the Black Sea;
Xenophon meant the more important westerly one, also called Pharnakeia. For
Sinope see
sigma 465.
[2] From
alpha 804.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 July 2001@05:25:19.
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