Μηδία - Stephanos Ethnika

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Μηδία, χώρα ταῖς Κασπίαις παρακεκλιμένη πύλαις. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. ἀπὸ Μήδου υἱοῦ Μηδείας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μῆδος ὁμοφώνως τῷ πρωτοτύπῳ, καὶ θηλυκὸν Μηδίς, καὶ Μηδικός, καὶ Μήδειοι λέγονται. ὁ Μηδικὸς ὀπός, ἡ Μηδικὴ βοτάνη. Στράβων “φέρει δὲ σίλφιον ἡ χώρα, ἀφ´ ἧς ὁ Μηδικὸς καλούμενος ὀπός, οὐ πολὺ λειπόμενος τοῦ Κυρηναϊκοῦ”. καὶ πάλιν “καὶ τὴν βοτάνην τὴν μάλιστα τρέφουσαν τοὺς ἵππους ἣν μηδίκην καλοῦμεν.”

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Text Details

Entry	#172
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 449.8 · Billerbeck Μ172
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count	62

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Ἀσίᾳ · FGrHist 1 F 286
Στράβων (Strabo)	11,13,7 [C 525,17]; 11,13,7 [C 525,15]

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μηδία	Media (region) · place · corrected · Q3853673
Κασπιαῖαι Πύλαι	Caspian Gates · place
Μῆδος	Medus (son of Medea) · person
Μήδεια	Medea · person
Μῆδος	Medes (ethnic name) · people
Μηδίς	Medis (feminine ethnic form) · people
Μηδικὸς	Median (as ethnonym) · people
Μῆδοι	Medes · people
Κυρηναϊκή	Cyrenaica · place
Μηδία	place · explicit · wikidata: Q3853673 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	From Medus, son of Medea.
Morphological Composition	The ethnic name Μῆδος is the same as the base form; the feminine is Μηδίς; also Μηδικός and Μήδειοι are said.
Morphological Composition	The Μηδικὸς 'opós' (a product/drink) and the Μηδικὴ plant.
Morphological Composition	The country produces silphium, from which the product called the 'Μηδικὸς ὀπός' (Median opós) is named.
Morphological Composition	The plant which mainly fed horses, which we call 'μηδίκη' (Median plant).

Links

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.152

char LCS 81 (25.3%) · word LCS 17 (27.4%)

Stephanos

Μηδία, χώρα ταῖς Κασπίαις παρακεκλιμένη πύλαις. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. ἀπὸ Μήδου υἱοῦ Μηδείας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μῆδος ὁμοφώνως τῷ πρωτοτύπῳ, καὶ θηλυκὸν Μηδίς, καὶ Μηδικός, καὶ Μήδειοι λέγονται. ὁ Μηδικὸς ὀπός, ἡ Μηδικὴ βοτάνη. Στράβων “φέρει δὲ σίλφιον ἡ χώρα, ἀφ´ ἧς ὁ Μηδικὸς καλούμενος ὀπός, οὐ πολὺ λειπόμενος τοῦ Κυρηναϊκοῦ”. καὶ πάλιν “καὶ τὴν βοτάνην τὴν μάλιστα τρέφουσαν τοὺς ἵππους ἣν μηδίκην καλοῦμεν.”

Herodian

…ον ἢ Γαδειρικόν». Ἑλληνικός, Ἑλλαδικός. Καρικός. Ἡρόδοτος ἐν πρώτῃ (c. 171) «τὸ Καρικὸν ἔθνος δοκιμώτατον». Λιβυστικός «Λιβυστικὰς πλάκας» Λυκόφρων (v. 648), ὅ τινες διὰ τοῦ 'γ' γράφουσι κακῶς. Μηδικός «ὁ Μηδικὸς ὀπός». Στράβων «φέρει δὲ σίλφιον ἡ χώρα, ἀφ´ ἧς ὁ Μηδικὸς καλούμενος ὀπός, οὐ πολὺ λειπόμενος τοῦ Κυρηναϊκοῦ». Πελασγικός «Πελασγικὸν Ἄργος ἔναιον» (Β 681). ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἐν Ἀθήναις τεῖχος «Πελαργικόν» ἤτοι Πελασγικόν ὡς ὁ κωμικὸς δηλοῖ ἐν τοῖς Ὄρνισιν (v. 832). «Ῥωσικὸς σκόπελος». Χαλυβδικός μετὰ τοῦ 'δ'. Λυκόφρων «Χαλυβδικῷ κν…