Μύκοι

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

Μύκοι OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
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Entry #232
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 460.15 | Billerbeck: Μ232
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count: 12
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus) FGrHist 1 F 289 [Ἀσίᾳ]
Entities: Μύκοι (Mykoi / Myci) [people], Μύκοι (Mykoi / Myci) [people], Ἀσία (Asia) [place], Ἀράξης (Araxes (river)) [place]
Etymologies: Unclear Metalinguistic: "from the Mykes to the Araxes river" (Hecataeus' phrase describing the territory)
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Μύκοι, ἔθνος [Περσίδος], περὶ οὗ Ἑκαταῖος ἐν Ἀσίᾳ “ἐκ Μύκων ἐς Ἀράξην ποταμόν”.
Mykoi: an ethnic group, concerning which Hekataios, in his *Asia*, says: “from (the land) of the Mykoi to the river Araxes.”

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.148
char LCS 41 (68.3%) · word LCS 9 (69.2%)
Stephanos
Μύκοι, ἔθνος [Περσίδος], περὶ οὗ Ἑκαταῖος ἐν Ἀσίᾳ “ἐκ Μύκων ἐς Ἀράξην ποταμόν”.
Herodian
…ήεντος ἄρχεται. Τὰ εἰς 'κος' διβράχεα μονογενῆ, εἴτε ἀρσενικὰ εἴτε θηλυκά, βαρύνεται, εἰ μὴ διαστολή τις σημαινομένου γένοιτο, οἷον λύκος καὶ Λύκος υἱὸς Πανδίονος, Πλάκος «ὑπὸ Πλάκῳ ὑληέσσῃ» (Ζ 396), πόκος, τόκος, Μύκος ἔθνος Περσίδος, περὶ οὗ Ἑκαταῖος ἐν Ἀσίᾳ «ἐκ Μύκων εἰς Ἀράξην ποταμόν». Ἴκος νῆσος τῶν Κυκλάδων προσεχὴς τῇ Εὐβοίᾳ, κρίκος. τὸ δοκός πρὸς ἀντιδιαστολὴν τοῦ δόκος τοῦ σημαίνοντος τὴν δόκησιν. καὶ παρὰ Ἀριστοφάνει ἐν Ταγηνισταῖς σημαίνει τὴν ἀγχόνην. σεσημείωται τὸ φακός ὀξ…