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Μαγνησία

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Ποιητὴς, ὁπόταν ἐν τῷ τρίποδι τῆς Μούσης καθίζηται, τότε οὐκ ἔμφρων ἐστίν → Whenever a poet is seated on the Muses' tripod, he is not in his senses

Plato, Laws, 719c

Wikipedia EN

  1. Magnesia (hypothetical city), a future colony of Knossos, imagined in Plato's Laws
  2. Magnesia (regional unit), the southeastern area of Thessaly in central Greece
  3. Ancient Magnesia, a historical region of Greece with borders differing from the modern regional unit
  4. Magnesia ad Sipylum, a city of Lydia, now Manisa in Turkey
  5. Battle of Magnesia, 190 BC, the concluding battle of the RomanSeleucid War
  6. Magnesia on the Maeander, an ancient Greek city in Anatolia

French (Bailly abrégé)

ας (ἡ) :
Magnésie :
I. presqu’île de Thessalie avec ville du même nom;
II. villes d'Asie Mineure;
1 Magnésie du Méandre, en Carie (auj. Inekbazar);
2 Magnésie du Sipyle, en Lydie (auj. Manissa ou Maneschir).
Étymologie: Μάγνης.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

Μαγνησία:Магнесия
1) гористая область Фессалии Her., Aeschin. etc.;
2) Μ. πρὸς или ἐπὶ Μαιάνδρῳ, город в Карии, на р. Летей, притоке Меандра Her. etc.