Μυλαί - Stephanos Ethnika

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Μυλαί, πόλις Σικελίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ὁ πολίτης Μυλαΐτης, ὡς τῶν Θηβῶν Θηβαΐτης, Ἀθῆναι Ἀθηναΐτης. εἰσὶ γὰρ οἳ οὕτω λέγονται. καὶ τὸ θηλυκὸν Μυλαῗτις. εἰσὶ δὲ Μυλαί καὶ Θετταλίας, ἧς τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μυλαῖος.

Mylai: a city of Sicily. Hekataios in his Europa. A citizen is a 'Mylaites'. For there are some who are so called. In the feminine 'Mylaitis'. There are also Mylai of Thessaly, whose ethnonym is 'Mylaios'.

Text Details

Entry	#234
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 461.6 · Billerbeck Μ234
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count	32
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Εὐρώπῃ · FGrHist 1 F 79

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μύλαι	Mylai · place
Σικελία	Sicily · place
Θῆβαι	Thebes · place
Θηβαῖος	Theban (citizen of Thebes) · people
Ἀθῆναι	Athens · place
Ἀθηναῖος	Athenian (citizen of Athens) · people
Μυλαῖτης	Mylaitian (male inhabitant of Mylai) · people
Μυλαῖτις	Mylaitian (female inhabitant of Mylai) · people
Θετταλία	Thessaly · place
Μυλαῖος	Mylaios (ethnic adjective/inhabitant) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	'The citizen [is] Μυλαΐτης, like of Thebes Θηβαΐτης, of Athens Ἀθηναΐτης. For there are those who are so called.' (i.e. explanation of the demonym formation for inhabitants of Mylai)
Morphological Composition	'And the feminine [form] Μυλαῖτις. And there are Mylai also of Thessaly, whose ethnicon is Μυλαῖος.' (noting the feminine form and an alternative ethnicon for another place named Mylai)

Links

Place links	Milazzo \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1546.jpg
Review	Open review page

Herodian overlaps

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Herodian 1.320

char LCS 32 (19.6%) · word LCS 5 (15.6%)

Stephanos

Μυλαί, πόλις Σικελίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ὁ πολίτης Μυλαΐτης, ὡς τῶν Θηβῶν Θηβαΐτης, Ἀθῆναι Ἀθηναΐτης. εἰσὶ γὰρ οἳ οὕτω λέγονται. καὶ τὸ θηλυκὸν Μυλαῗτις. εἰσὶ δὲ Μυλαί καὶ Θετταλίας, ἧς τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μυλαῖος.

Herodian

Ἀναδράμωμεν ἐπὶ τὸ προκείμενον, παραθέμενοι τὸ τύλη, ὅπερ οὐκ ἦν παρ´ Ἀττικοῖς. ἀλλὰ μέμνηται Σαπφὼ ἐν δευτέρῳ ἐγὼ δ´ ἐπὶ μαλθάκαν τύλαν κασπολέω μέλεα καὶ ἀσάμενον τύλᾳ κασπολέω. οὐ γὰρ ὁ τέ σύνδεσμος. μύλη καὶ Μύλαι πόλις Σικελίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. καὶ Θετταλίας. πύλη. ἔστι καὶ τόπος Ἀρκαδίας Πύλαι, ὃς καὶ Πυλαία. σύλη ἐν Σαμίων ὥροις. »καὶ οὐδένα κατέδησεν ὦν τῆς σύλης μετασχεῖν«. Λύλη πόλις Ἀρκαδίας, ὕλη καὶ Ὕλη πόλις Βοιωτίας. Ὅμηρος (Β 500) »οἵ τ´ Ἐλεῶν´ εἶχο…