- Μαγνησία
- Μαγνησία, ας, ἡ (Hdt. et al.; ins) Magnesia, a city in Asia Minor a short distance southeast of Ephesus, IMg ins. A temple of Artemis was one of its adornments. In order to differentiate this city from Magnesia in Thessaly, which was considered its mother (OGI 503 Μάγνητες οἱ πρὸς τῷ Μαιάνδρῳ ποταμῷ, ἄποικοι ὄντες Μαγνήτων τῶν ἐν Θεσσαλίᾳ, also the notes; SIG 636 and1157), and fr. another Magnesia in Asia Minor near Mt. Sipylus (OGI 501, 13; 229 s. note 12; for the ins s. IMagnSip), it is called Magnesia on the Maeander, despite the fact that it lies on the Lethaeus, about 6½ km. distant fr. the Maeander. The name of the river is usu. added w. a prep., in our passage πρός w. dat., as also in OGI 229, 84; 503 (s. above); IMagnMai 40, 11 and 16; 44, 4; 101, 8. An inhabitant of the city is called Μάγνης, ητος (Hdt. et al. in lit.; also on ins and coins [cp. the material in Lghtf. on IMg ins, also OGI 12; 231; 232; 234; 319; 501. For reff. to the name s. IMagnMai index III p. 206]); not Μαγνησιεύς (v.l.) or Μαγνήσιος (the longer form in Ignatius).—Pauly-W. XIV 471f; Kl. Pauly III 885f. PECS 544.
Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά παλαιοχριστιανική Λογοτεχνία. 2015.