Μήθυμνα - Stephanos Ethnika

Μήθυμνα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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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 Lesbos, from Methymna the daughter of Makar and wife of Lepetymnos. The citizen Methymnaios. For so are recorded Echekratides the Peripatetic, an associate of Aristotle, and Myrsilos the historian and Arion and many other Methymnaians. And the feminine Methymnaia, land and woman.

External translation supplied by Brady Kiesling; reported Claude Fable 5.5 translation. Credit: Brady Kiesling and the Stephanos project (Greg Baker, Gabriel Jower, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling). Not individually verified; exact Greek input not supplied.

Text Details

Entry	#173
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 449.16
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count	39

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἐχεκρατίδης (Echekratides)	—
Ἀριστοτέλης (Aristotle)	—
Μυρσίλος (Myrsilos)	FGrHist 477 T 1

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μήθυμνα	Methymna (Methymne) · place · corrected · Q38281278
Λέσβος	Lesbos · place · corrected · Q128087
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
Μήθυμνα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q38281278 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	From Methymna, the daughter of Makaros and the wife of Lepetymnus (i.e., the city is named after the woman Methymna).

Links

Place links	Methymna \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1457.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	καί + X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + Y (nominative PROPER NOUN) formula:0af867b3dd6df580	Translate as "Y is also 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · medium confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	πολίτης ὁ gloss:1c7dda400d7265cb	citizen Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.