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Polybius · The Histories §13.10.1-13.10.11

Geographical Fragments on Cities of Italy and Greece

Passage 795 of 1311 · Greek

Summary

Geographical fragments cited from the 13th book of Polybius' Histories, concerning various cities and tribes of Italy, Greece, Macedonia, and Illyria.

§13.10.1## α.
## α.
ρες ιταλιαε Βάδιζα, πόλις τῆς Βρεττίας, Πολύβιος τρισκαιδεκάτῳ.
Affairs of Italy Badiza, a city of Brettia. Polybius in the thirteenth book.
§13.10.2Λαμπέτεια, πόλις Βρεττίας, Πολύβιος τρισκαιδεκάτῳ.
Lampeteia, a city of Brettia. Polybius in the thirteenth book.
§13.10.3ἔστι γὰρ καὶ Ταμέση πόλις τῆς Ἰταλίας καὶ ποταμός.
For there is also Tamese, a city and river of Italy.
Πολύβιος δʼ ἐν τῷ ιγ# Τεμέσειαν τὴν πόλιν καλεῖ.
And Polybius in the thirteenth book calls the city Temeseia.
§13.10.4## β.
## β.
ρες γραεξιαε ετ μαξεδονιαε Ἀλλαρία, πόλις τῆς Κρήτης, Πολύβιος τρισκαιδεκάτῃ.
Affairs of Greece and Macedonia Allaria, a city of Crete. Polybius in the thirteenth book.
τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἀλλαριάτης, ὡς αὐτός φησιν.
The ethnic name is Allariates, as he himself says.
§13.10.d5Ἰλαττία, πόλις Κρήτης, Πολύβιος τρισκαιδεκάτῳ.
Ilattia, a city of Crete. Polybius in the thirteenth book.
§13.10.6Σίβυρτος, πόλις Κρήτης.
Sibyrtos, a city of Crete.
τὸ ἐθνικὸν Σιβύρτιος, ὡς Πολύβιος ἐν τρισκαιδεκάτῳ.
The ethnic name is Sibyrtios, as Polybius in the thirteenth book.
§13.10.7Ἀδράνη, πόλις Θρᾴκης Πολύβιος δὲ διὰ τοῦ 〈η〉 τὴν μέσην λέγει ἐν τρισκαιδεκάτῃ, Ἀδρήνη.
Adrane, a city of Thrace. But Polybius in the thirteenth book says the middle vowel with eta, Adrene.
§13.10.8Ἄρειον πεδίον ἔστι καὶ Θρᾴκης ἔρημον πεδίον χαμαιπετῆ δένδρα ἔχον, ὡς Πολύβιος τρισκαιδεκάτῃ.
Areion Plain. There is also a desert plain of Thrace which has low-growing trees, as Polybius in the thirteenth book.
§13.10.9Δίγηροι, ἔθνος Θρᾴκιον, Πολύβιος ιγ#.
Digeroi, a Thracian tribe. Polybius, book 13.
§13.10.10Καβύλη, πόλις Θρᾴκης οὐ πόρρω τῆς τῶν Ἀστῶν χώρας.
Kabyle, a city of Thrace not far from the land of the Astoi.
Πολύβιος τρισκαιδεκάτῃ.
Polybius in the thirteenth book.
§13.10.11## ξ.
## ξ.
φραγμεντυμ ινξερταε σεδις Μελίτουσσα, πόλις Ἰλλυρίας.
Fragment of uncertain location Melitoussa, a city of Illyria.
Πολύβιος τρισκαιδεκάτῳ.
Polybius in the thirteenth book.

Notes

  1. §13.10.7τὴν μέσην — Feminine accusative singular. It modifies an implied noun like συλλαβήν ('syllable') or φωνήεν (referring conceptually to the middle vowel, though neuter, via ellipsis of a feminine concept or simple substantivization). It refers to the middle vowel of the place name, comparing Ἀδράνη and Ἀδρήνη.
  2. §13.10.7τρισκαιδεκάτῃ — Feminine dative singular of the ordinal number 'thirteenth,' with the feminine noun βίβλῳ ('book') understood. It alternates with the masculine form τρισκαιδεκάτῳ (with λόγῳ understood) found in preceding sections like §13.10.6.
  3. §13.10.8χαμαιπετῆ δένδρα — The adjective χαμαιπετής ('low-growing,' 'creeping on the ground') is a third-declension adjective, here in the neuter plural accusative form, acting as the direct object of the participle ἔχον.

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Polybius, The Histories §13.10.1-13.10.11. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0543.tlg001.humanitext-grc2:13.10.1-13.10.11

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