Ἐρυθρὴ θάλασσα

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.ry.tʰrɛ̀ː tʰá.las.sa/ → /e.ryˈθri ˈθa.las.sa/ → /e.riˈθri ˈθa.la.sa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.ry.tʰrɛ̀ː tʰá.las.sa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.ryˈtʰre̝ ˈtʰa.las.sa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.ryˈθri ˈθa.las.sa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.ryˈθri ˈθa.las.sa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.riˈθri ˈθa.la.sa/

Proper noun

Ἐρυθρὴ θάλασσα • (Eruthrḕ thálassa) f (genitive Ἐρυθρῆς θᾰλάσσης); first declension

1. Ionic form of Ἐρυθρὰ θάλασσα (Eruthrà thálassa)
   • Herodotus, Histories, 1.180.1, ed. by A. D. Godley, 1920.

     ἐτετείχιστο μέν νυν ἡ Βαβυλὼν τρόπῳ τοιῷδε, ἔστι δὲ δύο φάρσεα τῆς πόλιος. τὸ γὰρ μέσον αὐτῆς ποταμὸς διέργει, τῷ οὔνομα ἐστὶ Εὐφρήτης: ῥέει δὲ ἐξ Ἀρμενίων, ἐὼν μέγας καὶ βαθὺς καὶ ταχύς: ἐξιεῖ δὲ οὗτος ἐς τὴν Ἐρυθρὴν θάλασσαν.

     eteteíkhisto mén nun hē Babulṑn trópōi toiôide, ésti dè dúo phársea tês pólios. tò gàr méson autês potamòs diérgei, tôi oúnoma estì Euphrḗtēs: rhéei dè ex Armeníōn, eṑn mégas kaì bathùs kaì takhús: exieî dè hoûtos es tḕn Eruthrḕn thálassan.

     So Babylon has been fortified with a wall in this way, but there are two halves of the city. For a river, that is called the Euphrates, cuts through its middle; it streams from Armenia and it is large, deep and rapid; this river disembogues into the Indian Ocean.