Νῦσαι

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

Νῦσαι OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
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Νῦσαι, πόλεις πολλαί. πρώτη ἐν Ἑλικῶνι. δευτέρα ἐν Θρᾴκῃ. τρίτη ἐν Καρίᾳ. τετάρτη ἐν Ἀραβίᾳ. πέμπτη ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ. ἕκτη ἐν Νάξῳ. ἑβδόμη ἐν Ἰνδοῖς. ὀγδόη ἐπὶ τοῦ Καυκάσου ὄρους. ἐνάτη ἐν Λιβύῃ. δεκάτη ἐν Εὐβοίᾳ, ἔνθα διὰ μιᾶς ἡμέρας τὴν ἄμπελόν φασιν ἀνθεῖν καὶ τὸν βότρυν πεπαίνεσθαι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νυσεύς καὶ Νυσαΐς θηλυκόν, ἀφ´ οὗ κτητικὸν Νυσήιος. λέγεται καὶ Νυσαῖος, καὶ ἐξ αὐτοῦ Νυσαιεύς τρισυλλάβως καὶ Νυσαεύς ἄνευ τοῦ « ι ».

Nysai: several cities. In Helikon. In Thrace. In Karia. In Arabia. In Egypt. In Naxos. Among the Indians. On Mount Kaukasos. In Libya. In Euboia, where, they say, within a single day the vine blossoms and the grape-cluster ripens. The ethnic is Nysus, and the feminine Nysais, from which the possessive adjective is Nysēios. One also says Nysaios, and from it Nysaieus and Nysaeus without the iota.

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