Μόψου ἑστία

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Entry #225
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 459.1 | Billerbeck: Μ225
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count: 27
AI prompt: v1
Entities: Μόψος (Mopsus) [person], Κιλικία (Cilicia) [place], Πύραμος (Pyramus (river)) [place], Μοψεάτης (Mopseates (inhabitant of Mopsus)) [people], Ἡρακλείδης (Heraclides) [person]
Etymologies: 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)
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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.

Mopsou Hestia: a city of Cilicia on the river Pyramus, named after Mopsus the seer. The citizen is Mopseates, by derivation (paragōgē) from one of the words. From there was the grammarian Heracleides the Mopseates.

Herodian overlaps