hecatompylos

hĕcătompylos, on (-os, com.; -on,

• neut.), adj., = ἑκατόμπυλος, of a hundred gates: hecatompylos Thebas nemo non novit, Amm.22, 16, 2; cf. Hyg. Fab. 275.

hecatompylos, on (ἑκατόμπυλος), hunderttorig, Akk. hecatompylos Thebas, Amm. 17, 4, 2; 22, 16, 2: heteroklit. Plur. hecatompylae, Hyg. fab. 275.

Hecatompylos

(ἑκατόμπυλος, “Hundred-gated”). (1) An epithet often applied to Thebes in Egypt. See Thebae.

(2) A city of Parthia near the centre of the country and once the capital.