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Headword:
*meqw/nh
Adler number: mu,434
Translated headword: Methone
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The city [of that name]. [sc. Also] one of the daughters of Halkyon.[1]
Demosthenes in [the]
Philippics would seem to be speaking of the one in Thrace, during his siege of which Philip lost his right eye.[2] But
Demetrius of
Magnesia says that there are four Methones.[3]
*meqw/nh: h( po/lis. mi/a tw=n *)alkuoni/dwn. *dhmosqe/nhs e)n *filippikoi=s le/goi a)\n th\n e)n *qra/|kh|: h(\n poliorkw=n *fi/lippos e)ceko/ph to\n decio\n o)fqalmo/n. te/ssaras de\ ei)=nai/ fhsi *meqw/nas *dhmh/trios o( *ma/gnhs.
Notes:
OCD4 s.v.
Methone(1). See also
mu 896.
[1] For this gloss, interrupting the coherence of the item (which is otherwise from Harpocration s.v.), see
alpha 1298.
[2]
Demosthenes 1.9 (web address 1).
[3]
Demetrius of
Magnesia (C1 BCE) wrote a work called
Cities of the Same Name. See generally OCD4
Demetrius(16).
Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 December 2000@05:59:31.
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