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Headword:
*ni/saion
Adler number: nu,425
Translated headword: Nisaion, Nisaeum, Nisaia
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A place of [ = in] Persis, where very fast horses are born, called Nisaean.[1]
But some [say] that [there is] a large plain of Media, whose name is Nisaeum.[2] So this plain brings forth the large horses.
Also [sc. attested is] Nisaios, a proper name; both the citizen [sc. of
Nisaia], and the horse [from there].
So note, that the author of the
Ethnica has truly made an error, in writing 'the Nisaean plain' and the 'Nisaean horses' with an eta.[3]
*ni/saion: to/pos *persi/dos, e)/nqa i(/ppoi w)/kistoi gi/nontai, *nisai=oi lego/menoi. oi( de/, o(/ti pedi/on me/ga th=s *mhdikh=s, tw=| ou)/noma/ e)sti *ni/saion. tou\s ou)=n dh\ i(/ppous tou\s mega/lous fe/rei to\ pedi/on tou=to. kai\ *nisai=os, o)/noma ku/rion: kai\ o( poli/ths, kai\ o( i(/ppos. shmei/wsai ou)=n, o(/ti e)/sfaltai a)lhqw=s para\ tw=| a)nagrayame/nw| ta\ e)qnika/, to\ *nisai=on pedi/on kai\ oi( *nisai=oi i(/ppoi paradedome/na dia\ tou= h gra/fesqai.
Notes:
The Suda offers the back-formation
*ni/saion for the adjective
*nisai=os; the place-name is most probably
Nisaia (see How & Wells' commentary on
Herodotus 7.40.2 -- cf. next note).
[1] See
Herodotus 3.106.2, 7.40.2 (web address 1, web address 2); see also
iota 578.
[2]
Photius (nu200 Theodoridis) calls Nisaion a plain of [= near] the Red Sea, while
Eustathius of Thessalonica,
Commentary on Dionysius' Description of the World 1017, refers to it as a plain in Media.
[3] i.e.
Stephanus of
Byzantium,
Ethnica p. 474 Meineke. In fact both spellings occur in
Herodotus, the spelling with eta in
Herodotus 9.20.4 (web address 3).
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; zoology
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 25 November 2009@05:34:06.
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