Citations:Ὄργανα
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Ancient Greek citations of Ὄργανα (Órgana)
- ante AD 131, Lucius Flavius Arrianus Nicomedensis (author), Johann Friedrich Dübner (editor), Edgar Iliff Robson (translator), Ἰνδική in Arrian, with an English translation, London: William Heinemann Ltd / Cambridge: Harvard University Press, volume II: Anabasis Alexandri (books V–VII) & Indica (book VIII) (LCL № 269, 1933), chapter xxxvii, § 2 (page 414):
- Καὶ ἡ μὲν ἐρήμη νῆσος Ὄργανα ἐκαλέετο, ἐς ἣν δὲ ὡρμήθησαν Ὀάρακτα· ἄμπελοί τε ἐν αὐτῇ ἐπεφύκεσαν καὶ φοίνικες, καὶ σιτοφόρος· τὸ δὲ μῆκος [ἦν] τῆς νήσου, στάδιοι ὀκτακόσιοι. Καὶ ὁ ὕπαρχος τῆς νήσου Μαζήνης συνέπλωεν αὐτοῖσι μέχρι Σούσων, ἐθελοντὴς ἡγεμὼν τοῦ πλόου.
- Kaì hē mèn erḗmē nêsos Órgana ekaléeto, es hḕn dè hōrmḗthēsan Oárakta; ámpeloí te en autêi epephúkesan kaì phoínikes, kaì sitophóros; tò dè mêkos [ên] tês nḗsou, stádioi oktakósioi. Kaì ho húparkhos tês nḗsou Mazḗnēs sunéplōen autoîsi mékhri Soúsōn, ethelontḕs hēgemṑn toû plóou.
- The desert island was called Organa, and that off which they moored Oaracta. Vines grew on it and date-palms; and it produced corn; the length of the island was eight hundred stades. The governor of the island, Mazenes, sailed with them as far as Susa as a volunteer pilot. ― translation from the same source (page 415)