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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.ry.tʰrɛ̀ː tʰá.las.sa/ → /e.ryˈθri ˈθa.las.sa/ → /e.riˈθri ˈθa.la.sa/
Proper noun
Ἐρυθρὴ θάλασσα • (Eruthrḕ thálassa) f (genitive Ἐρυθρῆς θᾰλάσσης); first declension
- Ionic form of Ἐρυθρὰ θάλασσα (Eruthrà thálassa)
- Herodotus, Histories, 1.180.1, ed. by A. D. Godley, 1920.
ἐτετείχιστο μέν νυν ἡ Βαβυλὼν τρόπῳ τοιῷδε, ἔστι δὲ δύο φάρσεα τῆς πόλιος. τὸ γὰρ μέσον αὐτῆς ποταμὸς διέργει, τῷ οὔνομα ἐστὶ Εὐφρήτης: ῥέει δὲ ἐξ Ἀρμενίων, ἐὼν μέγας καὶ βαθὺς καὶ ταχύς: ἐξιεῖ δὲ οὗτος ἐς τὴν Ἐρυθρὴν θάλασσαν.- eteteíkhisto mén nun hē Babulṑn trópōi toiôide, ésti dè dúo phársea tês pólios. tò gàr méson autês potamòs diérgei, tôi oúnoma estì Euphrḗtēs: rhéei dè ex Armeníōn, eṑn mégas kaì bathùs kaì takhús: exieî dè hoûtos es tḕn Eruthrḕn thálassan.
- So Babylon has been fortified with a wall in this way, but there are two halves of the city. For a river, that is called the Euphrates, cuts through its middle; it streams from Armenia and it is large, deep and rapid; this river disembogues into the Indian Ocean.