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.

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Text Details

Entry	#187
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 453.13 · Billerbeck Μ187
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
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

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…