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Headword:
Νεῖλος
Adler number: nu,289
Translated headword: Nile
Vetting Status: low
Translation: The river.[1]
And in the neuter, Νειλομέτριον ["Nile-gauge"], the instrument for measuring the Nile.[2]
Also Νειλῴοις ["Nilotic"].[3]
And Νεῖλος [Nilos, Nilus], a proper name.[4]
For they say Νέϊλος from νέειν ["swimming"] (that is, flowing) ἰλύν ["mud"], so that [the name] is Νέϊλος , [contracted to] Νεῖλος .[5]
See about the Nile under Brahmans.[6]
Greek Original:Νεῖλος: ὁ ποταμός. καὶ οὐδετέρως Νειλομέτριον, τὸ τοῦ Νείλου μέτρον. καὶ Νειλῴοις. καὶ Νεῖλος, ὄνομα κύριον. Νέϊλος γάρ φασι παρὰ τὸ νέειν, ἤγουν ῥέειν, ἰλύν, ἵνα ᾖ Νέϊλος, Νεῖλος. ζήτει περὶ τοῦ Νείλου ἐν τῷ Βραχμᾶνες.
Notes:
This entry combines material paralleled in other lexica.
[1] See also
epsilon 3309.
[2] See e.g.
Strabo 17.1.48.
[3] Dative plural, masculine; quoted from somewhere.
[4] For example, Nilus the elder of
Sinai (died c.430).
[5] cf.
nu 306.
[6] See
beta 524.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 August 2006@20:32:42.
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