Μιλύαι - Stephanos Ethnika

Μιλύαι OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Μιλύαι, οἱ πρότερον Σόλυμοι, ὡς Τιμαγένης πρώτῳ βασιλέων. καὶ ἡ χώρα Μιλυάς ὡς Μινυάς. λέγονται καὶ Μίλυες, ἀπὸ Μιλύης τῆς γυναικὸς Σολύμου καὶ ἀδελφῆς, ὕστερον δὲ Κράγου γυναικός. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μιλυεύς καὶ Μιλυίτης.

Milyai: formerly the Solymoi, as Timagenes in the first of the Kings. And the land Milyas as 'Minyas'. They are also called Milyes from Milye, the wife and sister of Solymos, and later wife of Kragos. The ethnonym Milyeus and Milyites.

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	#187
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 453.13
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count	33

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Τιμαγένης (Timagenes)	Βασιλέων · FGrHist 88 F 1

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μιλύαι	Milyai (the Milyae/Milyans) · people · corrected · Q28195245
Σόλυμος	Solymi (Solymians) · people
Μιλυάς	Milyas (region) · place
Μινυάς	Minyas (variant name of the region) · place
Μίλυες	Milyes (the Milyans) · people
Μιλύη	Milyē (female personal name) · person
Σολύμος	Solymus · person
Κράγος	Cragus · person
Μιλυεύς	Milyeus (ethnic) · people
Μιλυίτης	Milyites (ethnic) · people
Μιλύαι	place · explicit · wikidata: Q24955400 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	From Milyē, the woman (wife) of Solymos and (his) sister, later the wife of Kragos.
Unclear Metalinguistic	formerly the Solymi (according to Timagenes).
Unclear Metalinguistic	the country Milyas (also spelled/said as Minyas).
Unclear Metalinguistic	they are also called Milyes.
Unclear Metalinguistic	the ethnics (demonymic forms) Milyeus and Milyitēs.

Links

Place links	Milyayeva
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:5e7f1861601f28d1	*Translate as "X, book Y in his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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)... + 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 4 occurrences
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:7163e35f4bd326d9	Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 4 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym 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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.52

char LCS 77 (44.5%) · word LCS 14 (42.4%)

Stephanos

Μιλύαι, οἱ πρότερον Σόλυμοι, ὡς Τιμαγένης πρώτῳ βασιλέων. καὶ ἡ χώρα Μιλυάς ὡς Μινυάς. λέγονται καὶ Μίλυες, ἀπὸ Μιλύης τῆς γυναικὸς Σολύμου καὶ ἀδελφῆς, ὕστερον δὲ Κράγου γυναικός. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μιλυεύς καὶ Μιλυίτης.

Herodian

…ῖοι. Ματόας· οὕτω πάλαι ὑπὸ Σκυθῶν ἐκαλεῖτο Ἴστρος ὁ ποταμός. Ματόας δέ ἐστι κατ´ Ἕλληνας ἄσιος. πατραλοίας. Μαρσύας, Ἰχθύας, Ὀθρύας, Μινύας ἔθνος Θεσσαλίας, Μιλύας ἔθνος οἱ πρότερον Σόλυμοι ὡς Τιμαγένης πρώτῳ βασιλέων. λέγονται καὶ Μίλυες ἀπὸ Μιλύης τῆς γυναικὸς Σολύμου καὶ ἀδελφῆς, ὕστερον δὲ Κράγου γυναικός.

Herodian 1.236

char LCS 30 (17.3%) · word LCS 5 (15.2%)

Stephanos

Μιλύαι, οἱ πρότερον Σόλυμοι, ὡς Τιμαγένης πρώτῳ βασιλέων. καὶ ἡ χώρα Μιλυάς ὡς Μινυάς. λέγονται καὶ Μίλυες, ἀπὸ Μιλύης τῆς γυναικὸς Σολύμου καὶ ἀδελφῆς, ὕστερον δὲ Κράγου γυναικός. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μιλυεύς καὶ Μιλυίτης.

Herodian

…ἔθνος Ἰβηρικόν, Μάζυς ἔθνος Λιβύης νομαδικόν. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει. εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ ἕτεροι Μάξυες καὶ ἕτεροι Μάχλυες. Μάκρυς ἔθνος Λιβύης. Ῥιανὸς δὲ Μάκριας διὰ τοῦ 'ι' τούτους φησί. Μίλυς ἔθνος. Μίλυες γὰρ καὶ Μιλύαι καλοῦνται οἱ πρότερον Σόλυμοι, ὡς Τιμαγένης ἐν πρώτῳ βασιλέων. Σάλλυς ἔθνος Λιγυστικὸν πολεμῆσαν Ῥωμαίοις, ὡς Χάραξ ἐν δεκάτῳ χρονικῶν. βότρυς· ἔστι δὲ καὶ πόλις Φοινίκης. Ἕρπυς, Ἅλυς, Φόρκυς, μάρτυς, ὃ ἡ τῶν Αἰολέων διάλεκτος διὰ τοῦ 'ρ' προφέρει. τὸ ἰχθῦς προση…