Μήθυμνα

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

Μήθυμνα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
city
Entry #173
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 449.16 | Billerbeck: Μ173
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count: 39
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἐχεκρατίδης (Echekratides), Ἀριστοτέλης (Aristotle), Μυρσίλος (Myrsilos) FGrHist 477 T 1
Entities: Μήθυμνα (Methymna (Methymne)) [place], Λέσβος (Lesbos) [place], Μηθύμνη (Methymne (eponymous woman)) [person], Μάκαρ (Macar (Makár)) [person], Λεπετύμνος (Lepetymnos) [person], Μηθυμναῖος (Methymnaeans (inhabitants of Methymna)) [people], Ἀρίων (Arion) [person], Μηθυμναία (Methymnaia (feminine form — the land as a woman)) [person]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: From Methymna, the daughter of Makaros and the wife of Lepetymnus (i.e., the city is named after the woman Methymna).
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Μήθυμνα, πόλις ἐν Λέσβῳ τῇ νήσῳ, ἀπὸ Μηθύμνης τῆς Μάκαρος θυγατρὸς καὶ γυναικὸς Λεπετύμνου. ὁ πολίτης Μηθυμναῖος. οὕτως γὰρ ἀναγράφεται Ἐχεκρατίδης περιπατητικός, Ἀριστοτέλους συνήθης, καὶ Μυρσίλος συγγραφεὺς καὶ Ἀρίων καὶ ἄλλοι πολλοὶ Μηθυμναῖοι. καὶ θηλυκὸν Μηθυμναία χώρα καὶ γυνή.
Methymna: a city on the island of Lesbos, named after Methymna, daughter of Makareus and wife of Lepetymnos. The citizen is called Methymnaios. For thus Echecratides the Peripatetic, a companion of Aristotle, is entered (i.e. written/registered), and Myrsilos the historian, and Arion, and many others [are recorded as] Methymnaioi. The feminine is Methymnaia, both of a territory/district and of a woman.

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