Selleis

From Ancient Greek Σελλήεις (Sellḗeis).

• Sellēīs: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛlˈleː.iːs]
• Sellēīs: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [selˈlɛː.is]
• Selle͡is: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛl.liːs]
• Selle͡is: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛl.lis]

Sellēīs or Selleis m sg (genitive Sellēentos or Sellēentis or Sellentis); third declension

1. A river of Elis mentioned by Homer
2. A river of Sicyonia mentioned by Strabo
   • 1695, Dominicus Aebinga, De oraculo Dodonaeo..., (page 5):

     Circa illud Templum erat fluvius Selleentos nomine expressus et significatus.

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   • 1701, Christoph Cellarius, Notitia orbis antiqui - Volume 1, (page 1182):

     Strabo dicit pag. 233 inter Cyllenen et Chelonatam promontorium exire Peneum et Selleenta fluuios

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   • 1823, E. F. Poppo, Thucydidis de Bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo page 177], ([https://books.google.com/books?id=NSZ_R9llVVkC&pg=PA177):

     non item quum Peneum et Sellentem inter Chelonatam et Alpheum conlocavit

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   • 1825, Josephus Iscanus, Dictys Cretensis et Dares Phrygius de bello Trojano, (page 158):

     Urbs Troadis circa Abydum, ad fluvium Sellentem.

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Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant or non-Greek-type or non-Greek-type; two different stems), singular only.

¹In poetry.

• “Selleis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly