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Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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Entry #109
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 439.17 | Billerbeck: Μ109
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count: 15
AI prompt: v1
Sources: πολυίστωρ (the very learned / the much-knowing (author epithet)) FGrHist 273 F 129
Entities: Μεγίστη (Megiste (Kastellorizo)) [place], Λυκία (Lycia) [place], Μεγιστεύς (Megisteus (eponymous founder)) [person], Μεγιστεύς (Megisteus (ethnic name / demonym)) [other]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: from a certain Megisteus (i.e. named after a man called Megisteus)
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Μεγίστη, πόλις καὶ νῆσος τῆς Λυκίας, ὡς ὁ πολυίστωρ, ἀπὸ Μεγιστέως τινός. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεγιστεύς.
Megistē: a city and an island of Lycia, as the Polyhistor says, [so called] from a certain Megisteus. The ethnic (gentilic) is Megisteus.

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.344
char LCS 31 (40.8%) · word LCS 7 (46.7%)
Stephanos
Μεγίστη, πόλις καὶ νῆσος τῆς Λυκίας, ὡς ὁ πολυίστωρ, ἀπὸ Μεγιστέως τινός. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεγιστεύς.
Herodian
… Τὰ εἰς 'τη' ὑπερδισύλλαβα ἔχοντα κατὰ σύλληψιν σύμφωνον ἢ πρὸ τέλους τὸ 'ρ' κύρια ὄντα βαρύνεται, Ἀδρήστη, Ἰοκάστη. Ὀρέστη πόλις Εὐβοίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπης περιηγήσει. Ἀκέστη πόλις Σικελίας καὶ Ἄγεστα, παρὰ τὸν Ἀκέστην. Μεγίστη πόλις καὶ νῆσος τῆς Λυκίας, ὡς πολυίστωρ, ἀπὸ Μεγιστέως τινός. Δολιχίστη· οὕτως Ἀλέξανδρος

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