Μητρόπολις - Stephanos Ethnika

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Μητρόπολις, [πόλις] Φρυγίας, ὑπὸ τῆς μητρὸς τῶν θεῶν οἰκισθεῖσα, ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν τῷ περὶ Φρυγίας. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη Φρυγίας ὁμώνυμος. τρίτη Λυδίας. τετάρτη Θεσσαλίας. πέμπτη Ἀκαρνανίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μητροπολίτης. ἕκτη Δωριέων. ἑβδόμη τῶν ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ Μοσσυνοίκων. ὀγδόη Σκυθίας. ἐνάτη Εὐβοίας. δεκάτη τῆς ἄνω Θετταλίας.

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Text Details

Entry	#179
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 451.3 · Billerbeck Μ179
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count	45
Translation status	Mostly mechanical differences: numeral notation vs spelled-out ordinals, punctuation/bracketing and orthographic/capitalization variants. One substantive lexical difference: preposition ἀπὸ (Billerbeck) vs ὑπὸ (Meineke) in the founding phrase; Billerbeck also shows an internal lacuna marker absent in Meineke.

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀλέξανδρος (Alexander)	Περὶ Φρυγίας · FGrHist 273 F 78
Περὶ Φρυγίας (On Phrygia (title))	Περὶ Φρυγίας · FGrHist 273 F 78

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μητρόπολις	Metropolis (place name) · place
Φρυγία	Phrygia · place
Λυδία	Lydia · place
Θεσσαλία	Thessaly · place
Ἀκαρνανία	Acarnania · place
Μητροπολίτης	Metropolitan; inhabitant of Metropolis (ethnic/demonym) · people
Δωριεῖς	Dorians · people
Πόντος	Pontus (region/sea) · place
Μοσσυνοῖκες	Mossynoeci (people of Pontus) · people
Σκυθία	Scythia · place
Εὔβοια	Euboea · place
Θεσσαλία	Thessaly (upper Thessaly) · place

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	'Metropolis: a city of Phrygia, named from the Mother of the Gods (i.e. founded from the Mother of the Gods).' The city's name is derived from the (phrygian) mother-goddess.

Links

Place links	Mitropoli \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1469.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

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Herodian 1.168

char LCS 20 (7.9%) · word LCS 5 (11.1%)

Stephanos

Μητρόπολις, [πόλις] Φρυγίας, ὑπὸ τῆς μητρὸς τῶν θεῶν οἰκισθεῖσα, ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν τῷ περὶ Φρυγίας. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη Φρυγίας ὁμώνυμος. τρίτη Λυδίας. τετάρτη Θεσσαλίας. πέμπτη Ἀκαρνανίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μητροπολίτης. ἕκτη Δωριέων. ἑβδόμη τῶν ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ Μοσσυνοίκων. ὀγδόη Σκυθίας. ἐνάτη Εὐβοίας. δεκάτη τῆς ἄνω Θετταλ…

Herodian

…λογεῖν, εἰ παρὰ τὸ δέω γένοιτο δέεμος καὶ ἐν συναλοιφῇ δῆμος, τὸ συνδεδεμένον πλῆθος. τὸ γὰρ ἐναντίον λύη ἀπὸ τῆς διαλύσεως. Τὰ εἰς 'αμος' μονογενῆ δισύλλαβα βαρύνεται, πράμος, γάμος, Σάμος ἐπιφανὴς πρὸς τῇ Καρίᾳ νῆσος, ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν τῷ περὶ