Meaning of ofiusa

Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

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Ophiussa is also used. It means Country of Snakes. It was the name given by the ancient Greeks to the Iberian Peninsula. It was also the name of a Greek island (Greek colony) located at the mouth of the river Tiras (Dniester), in Pontus Euxinus.

  

Felipe Lorenzo del Río

From ophis opheos, snake. One of the many names of the island of Rhodes, according to historians such as Strabo, Pliny the Elder and Ammianus Marcellinus. Other names were Estadia, Telkines, Asteria, Etria, Tinacria, Corimbia, Peesa, Atabiria, Macaria and Olesa. " (Rhodo). . . vocitata est antea Ophiusa , Asteria , Aethraea , Tinacria , Corymbia , Paeessa , Atabyria ab rege . Deinde Macaria et Oloessa", Pliny the Elder tells us in his Naturalis History, Book V, 54.

  

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