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Headword:
*te/mph
Adler number: tau,303
Translated headword: Tempe; vales
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] narrow [places] between the mountains of Thessaly, around Olympus and Ossa; but generally, very narrow through-routes in all mountains.[1]
Also [sc. a generic term for] wooded places. In a special sense the Macedonian mountains [are] so called,[2] and the narrow places [there].
Herodotus [sc. uses the word in this sense].[3]
[Note] that after the battle of
Marathon [the] Thessalians medized, fearful of the blocking-off of
Tempe.[4]
*te/mph: metacu\ tw=n *qettali/as o)rw=n peri\ to\n *)/olumpon kai\ th\n *)/ossan stena/: kaqo/lou de\ kai\ e)n pa=si toi=s o)/resi steno/tatai diekbolai/. kai\ oi( su/ndendroi to/poi. i)di/ws de\ *makedonika\ o)/rh ou(/tw kalou/mena, kai\ oi( stenoi\ to/poi. *(hro/dotos. o(/ti meta\ th\n e)n *maraqw=ni ma/xhn *qettaloi\ e)mh/disan, dei/santes th\n a)po/fracin tw=n *tempw=n.
Notes:
The headword, whether upper- or lower-case, is a neuter plural. See also
tau 302, and under
chi 473.
[1] Same material in
Photius and other lexica.
[2] Thessalian, more exactly. (Aemilius Portus' edition made the correction.)
[3] From ancient glosses on
Herodotus 7.173.1 (web address 1).
[4] From
epsilon 979.
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; chronology; definition; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; politics
Translated by: David Whitehead on 24 March 2010@05:56:43.
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