Ἄδριον (Adrion)

Ἄδριον means “Adrium — a mountain range running through Dalmatia”.

Ancient Greek word, found 31 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Agathemerus, Geographiae informatio 3.8: Ἔστι δὲ ἡ μεγάλη Σύρτις σταδίων ͵ε, ἡ δὲ μικρὰ σταδίων ͵αχʹ, τὸ δὲ στόμα τοῦ Ἀδρίου, ὃ καλοῦσί τινες Ἰόνιον πέλαγος, ἔχει διάπλουν σταδίων ψʹ ἀπὸ ἄκρας Ἰαπυγίας ἐπὶ Κεραύνια ὄρη τῆς Ἠπείρου.

Strabo, Geography 7.5.5: … δὲ μὴ χρῆσθαι νομίσμασι πρὸς μὲν τοὺς ἐν τῇ παραλίᾳ ταύτῃ ἴδιον, πρὸς ἄλλους δὲ τῶν βαρβάρων πολλοὺς κοινόν. Ἄδριον δὲ ὄρος ἐστὶ μέσην τέμνον τὴν Δαλματικήν, τὴν μὲν ἐπιθαλάττιον τὴν δʼ ἐπὶ θάτερα. εἶθʼ ὁ Νάρων ποταμὸς καὶ οἱ …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.