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Headword: Alpeion
Adler number: alpha,1407
Translated headword: Alp
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Name of a mountain.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] Alps, "extensive mountains, which nature raised just like a fortification for Italy, their height above the clouds, and so very extensive that, divided, they reach the whole of Italy; the ones they call entrances."[2]
Also Alps, "mountains separating Gauls and Ailourians; there they stand as clustered strongholds. Where indeed Goths of old lived and kept guard."[3]
Greek Original:
Alpeion: onoma orous. kai Alpeis, orê epimêkê, has hôsper teichos Italias hê phusis êgeiren, hupernephê men to hupsos, epimêkestata de, hôs pasan Italian dieilêphota kathêkein: has eisbolas kalousi. kai Alpeis, orê diorizonta Gallous kai Ailourous: entha xunebaine phrouria suchna einai. hou dê Gotthoi ek palaiou ôikêmenoi phulakên eichon.
Notes:
OCD(4) p.66.
[1] Here as a neuter singular, Alpeion. The rest of the entry turns to feminine plurals, Alpeis.
[2] Herodian [the historian] 8.1.5.
[3] Procopius, History of the Wars of Justinian 6.28.28 (web address 1); cf. Kaldellis (377). Procopius's text in fact reads *ga/llous te kai\ *ligou/rous ("Gauls and Ligurians"). Liguria is the region around present-day Genoa, Italy; cf. Barrington Atlas map 39 grids D4-E4.
Reference:
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: chronology; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; imagery
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 9 June 2000@12:33:07.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added bibliography and keyword; cosmetics) on 23 February 2001@09:09:41.
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 3 July 2002@03:13:06.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 2 August 2011@04:49:09.
Catharine Roth (tweak) on 15 March 2012@01:02:04.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 30 July 2014@05:04:23.
David Whitehead on 13 June 2015@08:56:31.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, added bibliography, added link) on 15 December 2023@11:28:29.

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