Μινύα - Stephanos Ethnika

Μινύα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Μινύα, πόλις Θετταλίας. ἡ πρότερον Ἁλμωνία ἀπὸ Μινυοῦ κληθεῖσα, ἀφ´ ἧς ἡ Μινύα καὶ Μινύειον καὶ Μινυηίς καὶ Μινυήιος. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα Φρυγίας ἐν τοῖς ὁρίοις Λυδίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μινύαι.

Translation pending

Text Details

Entry	#192
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 454.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count	30

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μινύα	Miny(a) · place
Θετταλία	Thessaly · place · corrected · Q1247568
Ἀλμωνία	Almonia · place
Μινυεύς	Minyeus (Minyus) · person
Μινύα	Miny(a) · place
Μινύειον	Miny(e)ion · place
Μινυηίς	Minyeis · people
Μινυήιος	Minyeios (adjective/noun) · other
Φρυγία	Phrygia · place · corrected · Q32579
Λυδία	Lydia · place · corrected · Q620765
Μινύαι	Minyai (demonym) · people
Minya in Thessaly	place · city · Thessaly · explicit · wikidata: Q769145 · candidate
Minya in Phrygia near Lydia	place · city · Phrygia on the borders of Lydia · explicit · unresolved

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	Previously (called) Almonia, called from Minyos, from whom (are derived) Minya and Minyeion and Minuyeis and Minuyeios.
Unclear Metalinguistic	Previously (called) Almonia.
Place Transfer	There is also another (place of the same name) in Phrygia in the borders of Lydia.

Links

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	καλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται/ἐκλήθη (ἀπο...) gloss:ef7a95cd709173ed	is/used to be/is/was called/named after (+ ἀπο) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	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 1.303

char LCS 38 (26.0%) · word LCS 6 (20.0%)

Stephanos

Μινύα, πόλις Θετταλίας. ἡ πρότερον Ἁλμωνία ἀπὸ Μινυοῦ κληθεῖσα, ἀφ´ ἧς ἡ Μινύα καὶ Μινύειον καὶ Μινυηίς καὶ Μινυήιος. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα Φρυγίας ἐν τοῖς ὁρίοις Λυδίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μινύαι.

Herodian

ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος καὶ Φίλων, ἀπὸ Μάρσου. Μινύα πόλις Θεσσαλίας ἡ πρότερον Ἁλμωνία ἀπὸ Μινύου κληθεῖσα ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα ἐν τοῖς ὁρίοις Λυκίας. Κρύα πόλις Λυκίας. Ἀρτεμίδωρος. Ἁλικύαι πόλις Σικελίας. Θεόπομπος. μεταξὺ κειμένη Ἐντέλλης καὶ Λιλυβαίου. Καφύαι πόλις Ἀρκαδίας ἀπὸ Κάπυος τοῦ πατρὸς Ἀγχίσου ἢ ἀπὸ Κηφέως. Καπύα πόλ…