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Headword: Ninos
Adler number: nu,417
Translated headword: Ninos, Ninus, Nineveh
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
This [is] an Assyrian city, founded by Ninos, the husband of Semiramis, in Atouria.[1] The ethnikon [is] Ninian. This is used in Herodotus, in the phrase "at the so-called Gates of [the] Ninians".[2]
Greek Original:
Ninos: polis Assuriôn hautê, hên ektise Ninos, anêr Semiramidos, en têi Atouriai. ethnikon Ninios. chrêsis toutou para Hêrodotôi en tôi, kata tas Niniôn kaleomenas pulas.
Notes:
OCD4 Nineveh(1). Another spelling of the city-name at nu 415.
[1] The entry takes over "Atouria" from Stephanus of Byzantium s.v.; one of the mss of Steph. has "Assyria", but Atouria is more precise (see Strabo 16.1.1-3).
[2] Herodotus 3.155.5 (web address 1).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; geography; historiography; history; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 December 2000@11:30:20.
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Catharine Roth (link, status) on 16 December 2003@22:49:17.
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