ου (ἡ) [ᾰῡ] Abydos :
      1 v. de Troade sur l’Hellespont, en face de Sestos (auj. Nara Burnu) IL. 2, 836, etc. ;
      2 v. d’Égypte (auj. ruines près de Birbé) PLUT.

➳ ὁ Ἄϐ. HERMIPP. (ATH. 525).

ἡ, Abydos, on the Asiatic side of the Hellespont; — Ἀβυδόθεν, Adv.
from Abydos, Il. 4.500; Ἀβυδόθι, at Abydos, 17.584; — Adj. Ἀβυδηνός, ή, ον, of or from Abydos, Ath. 13.572e, etc. ; prov., Ἀ. ἐπιφόρημα a dessert of Abydos, i.e.
something unpleasant, variously expl., Zen. 1.1, etc. ; μὴ εἰκῆ τὴν Ἄβυδον (sc. πατεῖν) Paus.Gr. Fr. 2.

Place, proper name

• important Archaic to Late Antique polis at Nara Burnu in the Troad (Aegean Turkey). (TOPOS text)
• city of the Nile delta, moern Al-Balyana. (TOPOS text)