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Headword:
*kardi/a
Adler number: kappa,364
Translated headword: Kardia, Cardia
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A city of Thrace.[1]
Also [sc. attested are] Kardians, the citizens [of it].[2]
And[3] a name of a sea.[4]
Greek Original:*kardi/a: po/lis *qra/|khs. kai\ *kardianoi/, oi( poli=tai. o)/noma pela/gous.
Notes:
OCD(4) 279.
[1]
Kardia -- later renamed Lysimacheia; present-day Turkish Baklaburnu -- lay on the W side of the neck of the Thracian Chersonese, at the head of the Gulf of Melas (which is presumably the "sea" in question here). Barrington Atlas map 51 grid H3. On the strategic location of
Kardia see
Demosthenes 23.182 (web address 1)
[2] From a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Birds 1474; cf.
epsilon 669.
[3] This
kai/ has been inadvertently omitted from the Suda online text.
[4] Presumably an alternative name for the Melas Gulf.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography
Translated by: David Whitehead on 29 November 2000@07:00:24.
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