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Inachos, a king of Argos [Myth, Place], founded a city which he named for the moon, "Io", for that is what Argives call the moon. He also had a daughter Io; Pekos who is also [called] Zeus[1] abducted her and fathered a daughter, Libya, by her. And Io, lamenting her ruin, fled to the Silpion Mountain[2] and there died. Her father and her brothers, when they learned this, built a shrine to her and called the place Iopolis and remained there until the end. And they performed a ritual in her memory, banging on each other's doors every year and saying "io, io!"

*)iw/: o)/noma. *)/inaxos, *)argei/wn basileu/s, kti/zei po/lin ei)s o)/noma th=s selh/nhs *)iou=: ou(/tw ga\r th\n selh/nhn e)ka/loun *)argei=oi. e)/sxe de\ kai\ qugate/ra *)iw/, h(/ntina *ph=kos o( kai\ *zeu\s h(/rpase kai\ e)/sxe qugate/ra e)c au)th=s *libu/hn. h( de\ *)iw\ luphqei=sa e)pi\ th=| diafqora=| e)/fugen ei)s to\ *si/lpion o)/ros ka)kei= teleuta=|. o( de\ path\r kai\ oi( a)delfoi\ tou=to maqo/ntes kti/zousin au)th=| i(ero\n kai\ e)ka/lesan to\n to/pon *)iw/polin kai\ e)/meinan e)kei= me/xri teleuth=s, e)pitelou=ntes th\n mnh/mhn kai\ krou/ontes ei)s ta\s a)llh/lwn qu/ras kat' e)/tos e)/legon, i)w/, i)w/.

OCD(4) s.v.; see also iota 636.
After the initial gloss, this entry's material appears to come from late historiography; cf. [John of Antioch] fr. 6.14 FHG, now 10 Roberto.
[1] See pi 1500.
[2] At an elevation of 440 meters, Mount Silpion (Mons Silpius, present-day Mount Habib-i Neccar) forms the eastern boundary of the city of Antioch (alpha 2692, modern Antakya, Turkey); cf. Barrington Atlas map 67 grid C4.

William Hutton (Modified translation, added keyword) on 21 November 2000@23:31:08.
David Whitehead (supplemented translation; added note, bibliography, keywords; cosmetics) on 28 May 2001@04:24:42.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords; tweaking) on 13 January 2013@07:17:53.
David Whitehead on 4 August 2014@03:48:09.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 20 December 2014@23:54:31.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 29 January 2015@09:42:16.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 27 January 2019@02:12:15.
Ronald Allen (added map note) on 2 February 2019@18:15:08.

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