Μύρλεια

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

Μύρλεια OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
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Μύρλεια, πόλις Βιθυνίας, ἡ νῦν λεγομένη Ἀπάμεια ἀπὸ Μύρλου τοῦ Κολοφωνίων ἡγεμόνος. Νικομήδης δὲ ὁ Ἐπιφανής, Προυσίου δὲ υἱός, ἀπὸ τῆς μητρὸς Ἀπάμας Ἀπάμειαν ὠνόμασεν· οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ Μυρλείας Ἀμαζόνος. ὁ πολίτης Μυρλεανός, ὡς Ἀσκληπιάδης Μυρλεανὸς ἀναγράφεται. Στράβων δὲ Μυρλεᾶτιν καλεῖ τὴν χώραν, ἴσως ἀπὸ τοῦ Μυρλεάτης. ἔστι καὶ Μυρλεανὸς κόλπος.

Myrleia: a city of Bithynia, now Apameia. From Myrlos, leader of the Colophonians. Nikomedes surnamed Epiphanes, son of Prusias, named it Apameia after his mother Apama; but others from Myrleia the Amazon. A citizen is a 'Myrleanos', as Asklepiades the Myrleanos is recorded. Strabo, book 12, calls the region 'Myrleatis', perhaps from 'Myrleates'. There is also a Myrlean gulf.

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