Suda On Line
Search
|
Search results for nu,27 in Adler number:
Headword:
Naxia
Adler number: nu,27
Translated headword: Naxia; Naxos, Naxus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A city.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] 'Naxian stone', [meaning] the Cretan whetstone; for
Naxos [is] a city of Crete.[2]
The man[3] who wrote that Naxia [is] a city of Caria, of which the citizen is [called] a Naxieus and a Naxiates, says also that [there is] a city of
Sicily [called]
Naxos;[4] also a Cretic one, from which [comes] the Naxian stone; if [this adjective] is written with an iota, he says it was taken as
kritikê ("critical"), meaning determining and disclosing.
Naxos [is] also a notable Cycladic island. [It is named] either from some person named
Naxos or from the [verb]
na/cai ["to squeeze"], that is to sacrifice. They say that the Naxian women there are the only ones to give birth in eight months, as a gift of Hera. Dionysus also, they say, was born in this way. And according to Heracleides there is a spring there, from which very sweet wine flows.[5]
Greek Original:Naxia: polis. kai Naxia lithos, hê Krêtikê akonê: Naxos gar polis Krêtês. ho grapsas hoti Naxia polis Karias, hês ho politês Naxieus kai Naxiatês: legei kai hoti polis Sikelias Naxos. kai Krêtikê de, aph' hês hê Naxia lithos: hên ei dia tou i graphetai, kritikê eilêphthai legei, anti tou diakrinousa kai phanerousa. kai Kuklas de nêsos episêmos hê Naxos. ê apo tinos Naxou, ê para to naxai, ho esti thusai. phasi de tas ekei Naxias gunaikas monas oktamêna tiktein kata dôrean Hêras. kai Dionusos de, phasin, houtôs etechthê. kai krênê de kath' Hêrakleidên ekei, ex hês oinos rhei mala hêdus.
Notes:
[1] In
Karia (see below), present-day SW Turkey; Barrington Atlas map 61 grid F2.
[2] Also in
Photius nu26 Theodoridis (more briefly already in nu21); and cf. the
scholia to
Pindar,
Isthmian Odes 6.73 (106), where the phrase
*naci/an ... a)ko/nan occurs.
[3]
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v. Naxia and
Naxos. His material now follows here, abridged (though conversely it is the Suda that provides the name of Heracleides).
[4] Barrington Atlas map 47 grid G3; present-day
Naxos-Giardini.
[5] Heracleides of Pontus fr.136 Schütrumpf.
Reference:
E. Schütrumpf, Heracleides of Pontus. Texts and Translation. New Brunswick, NJ, 2008
Keywords: aetiology; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; gender and sexuality; geography; medicine; mythology; religion; women
Translated by: David Mirhady on 10 July 2009@17:32:56.
Vetted by:
No. of records found: 1
Page 1
End of search