Meninx

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Titre
Meninx
Date
2006
Dans
Brill’s New Pauly
Résumé
(Μῆνιγξ; Mêninx). Island (modern Djerba) and city (modern al-Kantara) in the province of Africa Tripolitana ( Africa [3]). Eratosthenes (fr. p. 308 Berger, in Plin. HN 5,41) describes the island as ‘lotus-eating’ (λωτοφαγῖτις; lōtophagîtis). Sources: Ps.-Scyl. 110 (GGM 1,85-89); Pol. 1,39,2; 34,3,12; Str. 3,4,3; Mela 2,105; Ptol. 4,3,35; 8,14,13; Stadiasmus Maris Magni 103; 104; 112; 124 (GGM 1,465f.; 468; 471). In 253 BC the Roman fleet ran into diffilculties off M. ((Pol. 1,39,2). In 217 BC the island was laid waste by the Romans (Liv. 22,31,2). Marius [I1] landed on the island during his flight to Africa (Plut. Marius 40,4). Contrary to [Aur. Vict.] Epit. Caes. 30,1-31,1, M. was not the home of the emperors Trebonianus Gallus and Volusianus (251-253).
Place
Leiden
Langue
eng
volume
8
ISBN
978-90-04-12271-0

Huß, Werner, “Meninx”, Brill, 2006, bibliographie, consulté le 7 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/18594

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