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Ἄβυδος

abudos · ἡ

Abydos, from Abydos, at Abydos

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Where it lives

  • Hellenica 18 · 2.74/10k
  • History 13 · 0.87/10k
  • Histories 14 · 0.76/10k
  • Politics 2 · 0.31/10k
  • Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
  • Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

Abydos, from Abydos, at Abydos, of, from Abydos, of Abydos, something unpleasant

Abydos, on the Asiatic side of the Hellespont:— Ἀβυδόθεν, Adv. from Abydos, Il. 4.500; Ἀβυδόθι, at Abydos, 17.584:—Adj. Ἀβυδηνός, ή, όν, of or from Abydos, Ath. 13.572e, etc.: prov., Ἀ. ἐπιφόρημα a dessert of Abydos, i.e. something unpleasant, variously expl., Zen. 1.1, etc.; μὴ εἰκῆ τὴν Ἄβυδον (sc. πατεῖν) Paus.Gr. Fr. 2: Ἀβυδοκόμης (Ἀβυδηνοκώμης or -κόμος Zen. 1.1), ου, ὁ = ὁ ἐπὶ τῷ συκοφαντεῖν κομῶν, Ar. Fr. 733.

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Where it came from

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