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Headword: *ku/dnos
Adler number: kappa,2613
Translated headword: Kydnos, Cydnus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Name of a river.[1]
"And flowing through is the river Kydnos, on which the men of Tarsus sit gulping the water like the softest of birds".[2]
Greek Original:
*ku/dnos: o)/noma potamou=. potamo/s te au)tou\s diarrei= [*ku/dnos], w(=| paraka/qhntai oi( *tarsei=s, kaqa/per tw=n o)rni/qwn oi( u(gro/tatoi, mequ/ontes tw=| u(/dati.
Notes:
[1] In Cilicia (Strabo 14.5.10, 11, 16; web address 1; etc.); the present-day Tarsos Cay, in S Turkey; cf. already kappa 2612.
[2] From Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.7 (quoted in full at epsilon 3504). The Suda mss omit the name 'Kydnos', but editors supply it from Philostratus.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; food; geography; imagery; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 November 2001@03:23:11.
Vetted by:
Elizabeth Vandiver (Corrected spelling of headword; added link; set status) on 3 October 2003@14:09:58.
David Whitehead (augmented note 1) on 25 June 2004@09:22:11.
David Whitehead (typo) on 26 September 2006@07:55:38.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 27 July 2011@06:28:57.
David Whitehead (expanded n.2) on 2 April 2014@07:43:22.
David Whitehead on 2 May 2016@11:09:18.
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