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Headword:
Arethousa
Adler number: alpha,3821
Translated headword: Arethousa, Arethusa
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A spring on the island of
Sicily,[1] into which flows [the]
Alpheus,[2] a river of[3] the Arcadian city [of that name], reaching open water through the Adriatic Sea and mingling in no way with the brine, as if [it were] the beloved of such a spring.[4]
Arethousa: pêgê kata tên nêson Sikelias, en hêi eisballei Alpheios, potamos tês Arkadikês poleôs, duomenos dia tês Adriados thalassês to pelagos kai mêdamôs têi halmuridi mignumenos, hôs an tês toiautês pêgês erômenos.
Notes:
Same entry in ps.-
Zonaras. See already at
alpha 1449.
[1] This spring actually comes up on a small island off the southeast Sicilian coast, Ortygia, upon which the Old City of Syracuse was established (Barrington Atlas map 47 grid G4).
[2] Also, the River
Alpheios (
alpha 1448), the longest river in the Peloponnese.
[3] Meaning: taking its name from.
[4] Hydrologically and chemically impossible, but for the mythological account see
Pausanias 5.7.2ff (web address 1).
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; gender and sexuality; geography; historiography; history; imagery; mythology; science and technology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 July 2001@13:28:11.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 13 July 2001@04:54:33.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 11 April 2012@04:40:37.
Ronald Allen (added map note, partitioned notes, added link, added keywords) on 20 April 2018@23:06:35.
Ronald Allen (repaired link) on 20 April 2018@23:10:48.
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