Plato, Timaeus, section 21e

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‘ἔστιν τις κατ᾽ Αἴγυπτον,’ ἦ δ᾽ ὅς, ‘ἐν τῷ Δέλτα, περὶ ὃν κατὰ κορυφὴν σχίζεται τὸ τοῦ Νείλου ῥεῦμα Σαϊτικὸς ἐπικαλούμενος νομός, τούτου δὲ τοῦ νομοῦ μεγίστη πόλις Σάις—ὅθεν δὴ καὶ Ἄμασις ἦν ὁ βασιλεύς—οἷς τῆς πόλεως θεὸς ἀρχηγός τίς ἐστιν, Αἰγυπτιστὶ μὲν τοὔνομα Νηίθ, Ἑλληνιστὶ δέ, ὡς ὁ ἐκείνων λόγος, Ἀθηνᾶ: μάλα δὲ φιλαθήναιοι καί τινα τρόπον οἰκεῖοι τῶνδ᾽ εἶναί φασιν. οἷ δὴ Σόλων ἔφη πορευθεὶς σφόδρα τε γενέσθαι παρ᾽ αὐτοῖς ἔντιμος, ’

Plato. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet. Oxford University Press. 1903.

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Commentary references to this page (1):
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 60
Cross-references to this page (2):
- Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache, B. Konsonanten.
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, The Article
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (7):
- LSJ, Ἑλλην-ιστί
- LSJ, ἀρχηγός
- LSJ, ἔντι_μ-ος
- LSJ, φι^λ-α^θήναιος
- LSJ, κορυ^φ-ή
- LSJ, ῥεῦμα
- LSJ, σχίζω

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