Μοῦρσα - Stephanos Ethnika

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city

Entry #221
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 458.6 | Billerbeck: Μ221
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count: 14
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Παρθένιος Φωκαεύς (Parthenios Phocaeus (Parthenios of Phocaea)) cf. RE XVIII 4,1900 Nr. 17
Entities: Μοῦρσα (Moursa (Mursa)) [place], Μούρσιον (Moursion (variant of Moursa)) [place], Παίονία (Paeonia) [place], Ἀδριανός (Hadrian) [person], Μουρσαῖος (Moursaios (ethnic name, the ethnicon)) [people]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: a foundation/settlement of Hadrian (i.e. founded by Hadrian); Unclear Metalinguistic: it is also called 'Mursion' (an alternative form of the place-name); Unclear Metalinguistic: the ethnicon (demonym) is 'Moursaios', according to Parthenios of Phocaea (a metalinguistic note about the name)
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Μοῦρσα, πόλις Παιονίας, κτίσμα Ἀδριανοῦ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μουρσαῖος, ὡς Παρθένιος Φωκαεύς. λέγεται καὶ Μούρσιον.

Moursa: a city of Paionia, a foundation of Hadrian. The ethnic (gentilic) is Moursaios, as [attested by] Parthenios the Phokaian (cf. RE XVIII 4, 1900, no. 17). It is also called Moursion.

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char LCS 33 (37.9%) · word LCS 5 (35.7%)

Stephanos

Μοῦρσα, πόλις Παιονίας, κτίσμα Ἀδριανοῦ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μουρσαῖος, ὡς Παρθένιος Φωκαεύς. λέγεται καὶ Μούρσιον.

Herodian

…Κόσσα πόλις Οἰνωτρῶν ἐν τῷ μεσογείῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Πάσσα πόλις Θρᾴκης. Ἄσσα πόλις πρὸς τῷ Ἄθῳ. Ἡρόδοτος ἑβδόμῃ (c. 122). ἔστι καὶ κώμη Σκυθίας. Προῦσα πόλις μικρὰ Βιθυνίας κτίσμα Προυσίου τοῦ πρὸς Κῦρον πολεμήσαντος. Μοῦρσα πόλις Παιονίας κτίσμα Ἀδριανοῦ. λέγεται καὶ Μούρσιον. Πέρσα πόλις παρὰ τῷ Εὐφράτῃ καὶ Σαμοσάτοις. Τάρσα κώμη ἐπὶ τῷ Εὐφράτῃ. Ἄρσα πόλις Ἱσπανίας, ὡς Χάραξ ἐν δεκάτῃ χρονικῶν. Τίρσαι πόλις Μυγδονίας τῆς ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ ἀπὸ Τίρσης μιᾶς τῶν θυγατέρων Γραστ…