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Headword:
Σαγγάριος
Adler number: sigma,14
Translated headword: Sangarios, Sangarius
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A river of
Lydia and
Phrygia.[1]
[It is recorded] that Gaius the Roman consul traversing bridged the river Sangarius, while it was completely dry[2] and hard to cross, and camped beside the river itself.[3]
Σαγγάριος: ποταμὸς Λυδίας καὶ Φρυγίας. ὅτι Γάϊος ὁ ὕπατος Ῥωμαίων διερχόμενος ἐγεφύρωσε τὸν Σαγγάριον ποταμόν, τελέως κοῖλον ὄντα καὶ δύσβατον, καὶ παρ' αὐτὸν τὸν ποταμὸν ἐστρατοπεδεύσατο.
Notes:
[1] The present-day Sakarya; Barrington
Atlas map 3 grid B2.
[2] For this meaning (or implication) of the adjective
koilos cf.
Thucydides 7.84.4. An alternative way to construe it here is "with deep banks".
[3] The quotation is slightly modified from
Polybius 21.37.4, on events of 189 BCE: a group of Galloi (eunuchs) arrive from celebrating the rites of the Great Mother at
Pessinus and are hospitably entertained by the Roman commander Gnaeus (sic) Manlius Vulso. (The name is correct, and the quotation longer, at
gamma 41.)
OCD(3) 1354
Keywords: biography; definition; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Robert Dyer on 17 May 2000@08:28:04.
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