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Headword:
Kapitôn
Adler number: kappa,342
Translated headword: Kapiton, Capito
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of
Lycia, an historian. This man wrote
History of Isauria[1] in eight[2] books;
Paraphrase of the epitome of Eutropius - a Latin summary of Livy the Roman;[3] and [works] concerning
Lycia and
Pamphylia.
Greek Original:Kapitôn, Lukios, historikos. houtos egrapsen Isaurika biblia oktô, Metaphrasin tês epitomês Eutropiou, Rhômaïsti epitemontos Libion ton Rhômaion, kai peri Lukias kai Pamphulias.
Notes:
?C5/6 AD; FGrH 750 (= this testimonium plus a group of fragments, from
Stephanus of
Byzantium's entries on Lycian place-names).
[1] "An ill-defined region of the Taurus mountains sandwiched between
Pisidia to the west,
Lycaonia to the north, and Rugged
Cilicia" (Stephen Mitchell in OCD(4) s.v.).
[2] 18, according to Steph.Byz.
[3] On Eutropius and his
Breviarum, based mainly on the
Epitome of Livy, see OCD(4) under Eutropius(1); and
epsilon 3775.
Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography
Translated by: David Whitehead on 4 December 2001@06:20:50.
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