Citations:Ὄργανα

Ancient Greek citations of Ὄργανα (Órgana)

• ante AD 131, Lucius Flavius Arrianus Nicomedensis (author), Johann Friedrich Dübner (editor), Edgar Iliff Robson (translator), Ἰνδική in Arrian, with an English translation, London: William Heinemann Ltd / Cambridge: Harvard University Press, volume II: Anabasis Alexandri (books V–VII) & Indica (book VIII) (LCL № 269, 1933), chapter xxxvii, § 2 (page 414):

  Καὶ ἡ μὲν ἐρήμη νῆσος Ὄργανα ἐκαλέετο, ἐς ἣν δὲ ὡρμήθησαν Ὀάρακτα· ἄμπελοί τε ἐν αὐτῇ ἐπεφύκεσαν καὶ φοίνικες, καὶ σιτοφόρος· τὸ δὲ μῆκος [ἦν] τῆς νήσου, στάδιοι ὀκτακόσιοι. Καὶ ὁ ὕπαρχος τῆς νήσου Μαζήνης συνέπλωεν αὐτοῖσι μέχρι Σούσων, ἐθελοντὴς ἡγεμὼν τοῦ πλόου.

  Kaì hē mèn erḗmē nêsos Órgana ekaléeto, es hḕn dè hōrmḗthēsan Oárakta; ámpeloí te en autêi epephúkesan kaì phoínikes, kaì sitophóros; tò dè mêkos [ên] tês nḗsou, stádioi oktakósioi. Kaì ho húparkhos tês nḗsou Mazḗnēs sunéplōen autoîsi mékhri Soúsōn, ethelontḕs hēgemṑn toû plóou.

  The desert island was called Organa, and that off which they moored Oaracta. Vines grew on it and date-palms; and it produced corn; the length of the island was eight hundred stades. The governor of the island, Mazenes, sailed with them as far as Susa as a volunteer pilot. ― translation from the same source (page 415)