Μόψου ἑστία - Stephanos Ethnika

Μόψου ἑστία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Μόψου ἑστία, [πόλις] Κιλικίας ἐπὶ τῷ Πυράμῳ ποταμῷ, ἀπὸ Μόψου τοῦ μάντεως. ὁ πολίτης Μοψεάτης, κατὰ παραγωγὴν μιᾶς τῶν λέξεων. ἀφ´ οὗ ὁ γραμματικὸς Ἡρακλείδης ὁ Μοψεάτης.

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Text Details

Entry	#225
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 459.1 · Billerbeck Μ225
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count	27

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μόψος	Mopsus · person · corrected · Q1887300
Κιλικία	Cilicia · place · corrected · Q620864
Πύραμος	Pyramus (river) · place · corrected · Q1057961
Μοψεάτης	Mopseates (inhabitant of Mopsus) · people
Ἡρακλείδης	Heraclides · person
Μόψου ἑστία	place · explicit · wikidata: Q555923 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	from Mopsus the seer (i.e., named after Mopsus, the seer)
Morphological Composition	the citizen (demonym) 'Mopseates', by derivation (formed by derivational morphology from the root/word)
Unclear Metalinguistic	from whom the grammarian Heraclides is called 'the Mopseates' (an attestation of the derived form)

Links

Place links	Mopsuestia \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1527.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

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

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.