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Headword:
*mhku/berna
Adler number: mu,915
Translated headword: Mekyberna, Mecyberna
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Mekyberna is a city in Thrace, 20 stades [sc. east] from Olynthos.
Greek Original:*mhku/berna: po/lis e)sti\n e)n *qra/|kh| stadi/ous k# a)pe/xousa th=s *)olu/nqou h( *mhku/berna.
Notes:
Abridged (as is
Photius s.v.) from Harpokration s.v., commenting on the appearance of this toponym in
Hyperides fr. 84 Jensen.
Also mentioned in e.g.
Herodotus 7.122,
Thucydides 5.18.6 & 39.1.
Mekyberna, present-day Molivopirgos, is Barrington Atlas map 50 grid D4.
Olynthos as a toponym does not have its own Suda entry (see merely
omicron 223), but cf. under
delta 415,
epsilon 3469,
iota 667,
kappa 240,
kappa 356,
omicron 116,
sigma 1179,
phi 222.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 December 2000@08:35:05.
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