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Headword: *fa/ros
Adler number: phi,113
Translated headword: Pharos, Psaros
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A river of Cilicia, three plethra [= 300 feet] wide. Also Pyramos, a river one stade [= 600 feet] wide. Also Chalos, a river one plethron [= 100 feet] wide, full of large, tame fish.
Greek Original:
*fa/ros: potamo\s *kiliki/as, ou(= to\ eu)=ros ple/qra g#. kai\ *pu/ramos, potamo/s, ou(= to\ eu)=ros sta/dion. kai\ *xa/los, potamo/s, ou(= to\ eu)=ros ple/qrou, plh/rhs i)xqu/wn mega/lwn kai\ prae/wn.
Notes:
From Xenophon, Anabasis 1.4.1 and 9 (web address 1); cf. pi 3191 and chi 59.
As regards the present entry, the river-name Psaros has become "Pharos" by contamination with phi 112 and phi 114.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; geography; historiography; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 14 November 2001@06:45:03.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 6 September 2002@12:50:12.
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added link) on 11 December 2003@20:20:02.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 9 August 2011@04:58:38.

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