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Cherronesus

Cherronesus · f

absol

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Where it lives

Miltiades 7 · 52.47/10k
Letters to and from Brutus 2 · 2.1/10k
De Lege Agraria 1 · 0.73/10k
Naturalis Historia 18 · 0.45/10k
Ab urbe condita 16 · 0.31/10k
Res Gestae 3 · 0.24/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

Cherrŏnēsus — Lewis & Short

Cherrŏnēsus (-ŏs), or Chersŏnē-sus, i, f., = *xerro/nhsos or *xerso/nhsos (a peninsula; hence),

I Cherronesus Thracia, or absol. Cherronesus, the Thracian peninsula at the west of the Hellespont, the Chersonese, Mel. 2, 2, 7; Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 48; Cic. Agr. 2, 19, 5; id. Pis. 35, 86 B. and K.; Nep. Milt. 1, 1 sq.; Liv. 31, 16, 5. —Hence, Cherrŏnenses or Chersŏ-nenses (contr. instead of Cherronesenses), the inhabitants of the Chersonese, Just. 9, 1, 7.—

II Cherronesus Taurica, or absol. Cherronesus, the Crimea, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 19; Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 85; 19, 5, 30, § 95.—

III Cherronesus Heracleotarum, or Heraclea, a town on the western side of the Crimea, Plin. 4, 12, 24, § 78; 4, 12, 26, § 85.—

IV A promontory in Argolis, not far from Trœzene, now Chersonisi, Mel. 2, 3, 8.—

V Cherronesus Rhodiorum, a small promontory of Caria opposite Rhodes, on which the town of Cnidus stands, Plin. 31, 2, 20, § 30. —

VI A small town on the Egyptian coast, Auct. B. Alex. 10.

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