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Headword:
Αἰγεσταῖος
Adler number: alphaiota,29
Translated headword: Aigestaios, Aegestaeus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Proper name.[1] But [sc. also attested is] Aigesteus, [genitive] Αἰγεστέως .[2]
Greek Original:Αἰγεσταῖος: ὄνομα κύριον. Αἰγεστεὺς δέ, Αἰγεστέως.
Notes:
[1] In the sense of being a citizen of Aigesta (Egesta,
Segesta) in western
Sicily; so in
Diodorus Siculus,
Strabo and elsewhere. (But note that
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v. equates them with the Thesprotoi, mentioned in the Odyssey, of SW Epeiros.)
[2] Attested only here.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography
Translated by: William Hutton on 26 October 2002@13:03:05.
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