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Headword:
Termeria
kaka
Adler number: tau,348
Translated headword: Termerian evils
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A place in
Karia is called Termerion, which the tyrants used to use as a prison.[1] This spot, a deserted one, lies between
Melos and Halicarnassus.[2] And with elusive pirates operating from this, this was said.
So great evils [are called] 'Termerian evils'.[3]
Termeria kaka: peri Karian chôrion Termerion kaleitai, hôi echrônto hoi turannoi desmôtêriôi. to de chôrion erumnon tunchanon keitai metaxu Mêlou kai Halikarnassou. tôn de apo toutou lêïzomenôn dusalôtôn tunchanontôn, lechthênai touto. Termeria oun kaka, ta megala kaka.
Notes:
[1] So the transmitted text, but for 'tyrannoi' one could perhaps read (with K.O. Mueller) 'Tyrr(h)enoi', i.e. Etruscans; cf.
phi 184.
[2] '
Melos', an island in the S Aegean, cannot be right, and 'Mylos' (transmitted at
Photius tau191 Theodoridis) is no better. What we need, as Hemsterhuys realized, is
Myndos. Cape Termerion is the present-day Koca Burun; Barrington Atlas map 61 grid E4.
[3]
Zenobius 6.6, etc. See also
mu 24.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 16 December 2002@08:50:25.
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