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Headword: *numfi/os
Adler number: nu,596
Translated headword: Nymphios, Nymphius
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Name of a river.[1]
The Pisidian [writes]: "and having passed beyond the mighty Nymphios, which by flowing into the streams of Tigris is deprived of the name Nymphios".[2]
Greek Original:
*numfi/os: o)/noma potamou=. *pisi/dhs: kai\ to\n me/giston e)kpera/sas *numfi/on, o(/stis *ti/gridos tai=s r(oai=s e)pirre/wn a)posterei=tai tou= kalei=sqai *numfi/os.
Notes:
[1] a.k.a. Parthenias. In Armenia; Barrington Atlas map 89 grid D3.
[2] George of Pisidia, Heraclias 3 fr. 15 Tartaglia. Tartaglia notes (229, n. 88) that the Pisidian's fragments 15-16 concern the Roman emperor's fording of the Nymphius and Euphrates Rivers during his advance through Persian-held Anatolia in 625; cf. epsilon 55 note. For Tigris see under tau 559.
Reference:
L. Tartaglia, ed., Carmi di Giorgio di Pisidia, (Torino 1998)
Keywords: biography; definition; geography; history; military affairs; poetry
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 October 2005@05:28:21.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 20 October 2005@11:45:33.
David Whitehead (x-ref) on 21 October 2005@02:57:58.
David Whitehead on 18 June 2013@05:42:05.
Catharine Roth (tweaked reference) on 27 November 2014@00:19:54.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2; added bibliography, cross-reference, and keywords) on 13 November 2025@11:19:07.
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