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Entry #184
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 452.7 | Billerbeck: Μ184
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count: 118
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus) FGrHist 1 F 240 [Ἀσίᾳ], Δίδυμος (Didymus) p. 374 fr. 6 Schmidt [Συμποσιακοῖς]
Entities: Μίλητος (Miletus) [place], Καρία (Caria) [place], Ἴωνες (Ionians) [people], Ἀσία (Asia) [place], Λελεγής (Lelegis (former name)) [place], Λέλεγες (Leleges) [people], Πιτυοῦσσα (Pityoussa) [place], Δήμητρα (Demeter) [deity], Ἄναξ (Anax (Anaktos)) [person], Γῆ (Earth (Gaia)) [deity], Οὐρανός (Uranus (Ouranos)) [deity], Ἀνακτορία (Anaktoria) [place], Μιλησίος (Milesian) [people], Θαλῆς (Thales) [person], Ἐξαμῦος (Examyus (father's name)) [person], Φωκυλίδης (Phocylides) [person], Τιμόθεος (Timotheos (Timotheus)) [person], Μακεδονία (Macedonia) [place], Μοῦσαι (the Muses) [deity]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: It was first called 'Lelegeis' from the inhabitants called the Leleges.; Morphological Composition: Then 'Pityoussa' from the pines there, and that the pine first grew there.; Eponym Person: Afterwards it was named 'Anaktoria' from Anaktos (of Earth and Heaven).
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Μίλητος, πόλις ἐπιφανὴς ἐν Καρίᾳ τῶν Ἰώνων. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Δίδυμος δ´ ἐν συμποσιακοῖς φησιν ὅτι πρῶτον Λελεγηίς, ἐκαλεῖτο ἀπὸ τῶν ἐνοικούντων Λελέγων, εἶτα Πιτύουσα ἀπὸ τῶν ἐκεῖ πιτύων καὶ ὅτι ἐκεῖ πρῶτον πίτυς ἔφυ. οἱ γὰρ ..... ἐν τοῖς θεσμοφορίοις πίτυος κλάδον ὑπὸ τὴν στιβάδα ... καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ τῆς Δήμητρος ἱερὰ κλῶνον πίτυος τίθεσθαι .... διὰ τὸ ἀρχαῖον τῆς γενέσεως. μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ἀπὸ Ἄνακτος τοῦ Γῆς καὶ Οὐρανοῦ ὠνομάσθη Ἀνακτορία· ὁ πολίτης Μιλήσιος. οὕτως καὶ Θαλῆς Ἐξαμύου πατρὸς Μιλήσιος ἐχρημάτιζε καὶ Φωκυλίδης καὶ Τιμόθεος κιθαρῳδός, ὃς ἐποίησε νόμων κιθαρῳδικῶν βίβλους ὀκτωκαίδεκα εἰς ἐπῶν ὀκτακισχιλίων τὸν ἀριθμόν, καὶ προνόμια ἄλλων χίλια. θνήσκει δ´ ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ. ἐπιγέγραπται δ´ αὐτῷ τόδε Πάτρα Μίλητος τίκτει Μούσαισι ποθεινόν Τιμόθεον κιθάρας δεξιὸν ἡνίοχον. [ἔστι καὶ Κρητικὴ πόλις Μίλητος· λέγεται δὲ καὶ τὴν Καλυψοῦς νῆσον Μίλητον κληθῆναί ποτε.]

Miletos: a distinguished city in Caria, of the Ionians. Hekataios in his *Asia*. But Didymos in the *Symposiaka* says that it was first called **Lelegeis** from its inhabitants, the **Leleges**; then **Pityoussa** from the pine-trees there, and because there the pine first sprang up. For the inhabitants at the Thesmophoria are accustomed to place a branch of pine beneath the bedding and to set a sprig of pine upon the sacred objects of Demeter, on account of the antiquity of its origin. After these things it was named **Anaktoria**, after **Anax**, son of Earth and Sky. The citizen is *Milesios* (“Milesian”). Thus too Thales, whose father was Examyes, was called a Milesian, and so were Phokylides and Timotheos the citharode, who composed eighteen books of citharodic *nomoi*, amounting to the number 8,000 lines of verse, and (a book of) privileges of others, 1. He died in Macedonia. The following is inscribed for him (SH 518): “Fatherland Miletos bears for the Muses the much-longed-for Timotheos, the skilful charioteer of the lyre.”

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Herodian 1.219

char LCS 163 (23.2%) · word LCS 33 (25.4%)

Stephanos

…πόλις ἐπιφανὴς ἐν Καρίᾳ τῶν Ἰώνων. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Δίδυμος δ´ ἐν συμποσιακοῖς φησιν ὅτι πρῶτον Λελεγηίς, ἐκαλεῖτο ἀπὸ τῶν ἐνοικούντων Λελέγων, εἶτα Πιτύουσα ἀπὸ τῶν ἐκεῖ πιτύων καὶ ὅτι ἐκεῖ πρῶτον πίτυς ἔφυ. οἱ γὰρ ..... ἐν τοῖς θεσμοφορίοις πίτυος κλάδον ὑπὸ τὴν στιβάδα ... καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ τῆς Δήμητρος ἱερὰ κλῶνον πίτυος τίθεσθαι .... διὰ τὸ ἀρχαῖον τῆς γενέσεως. μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ἀπὸ Ἄνακτος τοῦ Γῆς καὶ Οὐρανοῦ ὠνομάσθη Ἀνακτορία· ὁ πολίτης Μιλήσιος. οὕτως καὶ Θαλῆς Ἐξαμύου πατρὸς Μιλήσιος ἐχρημάτιζε καὶ Φωκυλίδης καὶ Τιμόθεος κιθαρῳδός, ὃς ἐποίησε νόμων κιθαρῳδικῶν βίβλους ὀκτωκαίδεκα εἰς ἐπῶν ὀκτακισχιλίων τὸν ἀριθμόν, καὶ προνόμια ἄλλων χίλια…

Herodian

…ιφανὴς ἐν Καρίᾳ τῶν Ἰώνων. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Δίδυμος δ´ ἐν τοῖς συμποσιακοῖς φησιν, ὅτι πρῶτον Λελεγηίς ἐκαλεῖτο ἀπὸ τῶν ἐνοικούντων Λελέγων, εἶτα Πιτύουσα ἀπὸ τῶν ἐκεῖ πιτύων καὶ ὅτι ἐκεῖ πρῶτον πίτυς ἔφυ. οἱ γὰρ Μιλήσιοι ἐν τοῖς θεσμοφορίοις πίτυος κλάδον ὑπὸ τὴν στιβάδα... καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ τῆς Δήμητρος ἱερὰ κλῶνον πίτυος τίθεσθαι... διὰ τὸ ἀρχαῖον τῆς γενέσεως. μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ἀπὸ Ἄνακτος τοῦ Γῆς καὶ Οὐρανοῦ ὠνομάσθη Ἀνακτορία. ἔστι δὲ καὶ Κρητικὴ πόλις Μίλητος. λέγεται δὲ καὶ τὴν Καλυψοῦς νῆσον Μίλητον κληθῆναί ποτε. Κόρητος. Κατάρητος ὁ ποταμός. Αἴνητος ὄνομα κύριον, τρύγητος

Herodian 1.84

char LCS 33 (4.7%) · word LCS 5 (3.8%)

Stephanos

Μίλητος, πόλις ἐπιφανὴς ἐν Καρίᾳ τῶν Ἰώνων. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Δίδυμος δ´ ἐν συμποσιακοῖς φησιν ὅτι πρῶτον Λελεγηίς, ἐκαλεῖτο ἀπὸ τῶν ἐνοικούντων Λελέγων, εἶτα Πιτύουσα ἀπὸ τῶν ἐκεῖ πιτύων καὶ ὅτι ἐκεῖ πρῶτον πίτυς ἔφυ. οἱ γὰρ ..... ἐν τοῖς θεσμοφορίοις πίτυος κλάδον ὑπὸ τὴν στιβάδα ... καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ τῆς Δήμητρος ἱερὰ κλῶνον πίτυος τίθεσθαι .... διὰ τὸ ἀρχαῖον τῆς γενέσεως.…

Herodian

…αληΐς, βασιληΐς, Οἰτηΐς, Βοιβηΐς, Καδμηΐς. ἐκαλεῖτο οὕτως ἡ Βοιωτία ὡς Θουκυδίδης (I 12), Βρυγηΐς, Παταρηΐς, Πελοπηΐς, Γολγηΐς, Μινυηΐς, Ῥοιτηΐς, Γρυνηΐς, Θυνηΐς, Δολοπηΐς ἡ χώρα τῶν Δολόπων, Λελεγηΐς. οὕτω πρῶτον Μίλητος ἐκαλεῖτο ἀπὸ τῶν ἐνοικούντων Λελέγων, ὡς Δίδυμος ἐν συμποσιακοῖς. Λιλυβηΐς, Λυκτηΐς, Δραγγηΐς, Ταμυνηΐς, Δρυοπηΐς, Δωτηΐς. Ῥιανὸς ἐν δʹ Μεσσηνιακῶν »αὐδὴν εἰσάμενος Δωτηΐδι Νικοτελείῃ«. Μελανηΐς· οὕτως ἐκαλεῖτο Ἐρέτρια ἀπὸ Μελανέως τοῦ Εὐρύτου πατρός. Δρυη…