Μιλύαι

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Entry #187
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 453.13 | Billerbeck: Μ187
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count: 33
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Τιμαγένης (Timagenes) FGrHist 88 F 1 [Βασιλέων]
Entities: Μιλύαι (Milyai (the Milyae/Milyans)) [people], 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]
Etymologies: 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.
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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.
Milyae: the people formerly called the Solymi, as Timagenes says in book 1 of *On Kings*. Their country is (called) Milyas, as (one says) Minyas. They are also called Milyes. (The name is derived) from Milye, the wife and sister of Solymus, later the wife of Cragus. The ethnic is *Milyeus* and *Milyites*.

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…

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