Μεδεών - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #110
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 439.19 | Billerbeck: Μ110
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count: 26
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Στράβων (Strabo) θ (9,2,26 [C 410,24])
Entities: Μεδεών (Medeon) [place], Μεδεών (Medeon) [person], Πυλάδης (Pylades) [person], Ἠλέκτρα (Electra) [person], Ἤπειρος (Epirus) [place]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: It was named after Medeon, son of Pylades, and Electra.
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Μεδεών, Βοιωτικὴ πόλις. καὶ Φωκικὴ ἑτέρα. Στράβων ἐνάτῃ. ἐκλήθη δὲ ἀπὸ Μεδεῶνος τοῦ Πυλάδου καὶ Ἠλέκτρας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεδεώνιος. ἔστι καὶ τῆς Ἠπείρου πόλις. καὶ κώμη ...

Medeōn: a Boeotian city; and another in Phokis. Strabo book 9. It was named after Medeōn, son of Pylades and Ēlektra. The ethnic (gentilic) is Medeōnios. There is also a city and a village of Epeiros.

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Herodian 1.39

char LCS 85 (64.4%) · word LCS 16 (61.5%)

Stephanos

Μεδεών, Βοιωτικὴ πόλις. καὶ Φωκικὴ ἑτέρα. Στράβων ἐνάτῃ. ἐκλήθη δὲ ἀπὸ Μεδεῶνος τοῦ Πυλάδου καὶ Ἠλέκτρας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεδεώνιος. ἔστι καὶ τῆς Ἠπείρου πόλις. καὶ κώμη ...

Herodian

…σημείωται τὸ Σούλμων πόλις Σικελίας. τὸ δὲ Κρότων διαστολὴν ἔχει σημαινομένου. Τὰ εἰς 'ων' ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβὰς ἐπὶ πόλεων ὀξύνεσθαι θέλει, εἰ μὴ εἰς 'λων' λήγοι, ἔχοντα πρὸ τοῦ τέλους 'α', ἢ ἔννοιαν συνθέσεως ἔχοι, Ἐλεών, Μεδεών Βοιωτικὴ πόλις. καὶ Φωκικὴ ἑτέρα. Στράβων ἐνάτῃ. ἐκλήθη δὲ ἀπὸ Μεδεῶνος τοῦ Πυλάδου καὶ Ἠλέκτρας. ἔστι καὶ τῆς Ἠπείρου πόλις καὶ κώμη.... Πετεών πόλις Βοιωτίας, Πορφυρεών πόλις Φοινίκη, Μεδιών, Σικυών, Βαβυλών. σεσημείωται τὸ Ἀσκάλων καὶ Καστάλων βαρύτονα ὡς εἰς 'αλων' ληγόμενα· τὸ δὲ