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Headword:
Porthmos
Adler number: pi,2075
Translated headword: strait
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a crossing, a sea with land on both sides. For an isthmus is a narrow stretch of land having sea on either side, but a strait is sea that is confined by land.[1]
"There are twin straits, the one on the Hellespont in the vicinity of Sestus and
Abydos, and the other on the mouth of the Black Sea, at the site of what is called the Shrine. On the Hellespont there was not really a toll post, but an official sent from the emperor was stationed in
Abydos to carry out inspections on particulars [...]; and the one sent to the other strait always went having been supplied with pay by the emperor, supplying nothing from those who were engaged in ship traffic there [...]."[2]
Greek Original:Porthmos: perama, amphigeios thalassa. isthmos gar esti gê stenê, hekaterôthen echousa thalassan, porthmos de thalassa hupo gês periechomenê. porthmô duo eston, ho men eph' Hellêspontou amphi Sêston te kai Abudon, ho de dê heteros epi tou stomatos tou Euxeinou Pontou, hou to Hieron onomazetai. en men dê tôi Hellêspontôi telôneion hêkista ên, archôn de tis ek basileôs stellomenos en Abudôi kathêsto, diereunômenos hekasta: ho de epi porthmou tou heterou stellomenos misthon aei pros basileôs kekomismenos êei, ouden pros tôn têide nautillomenôn komizomenos.
Notes:
For this headword as an actual toponym see
pi 2074.
[1] =
Synagoge and
Photius pi1097 Theodoridis; similarly already
Hesychius; and in reverse at
iota 640 (q.v.).
[2] An abridged and somewhat garbled quotation of
Procopius,
Secret History 25.2-4. In substantive terms the main omission here is the fact that the duty of the official in
Abydos was to see, specifically, that unauthorized
weapons did not reach
Byzantion.
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Translated by: William Hutton on 24 February 2013@09:58:46.
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