Μύρα - Stephanos Ethnika

Μύρα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Μύρα, πόλις Λυκίας, ἀπὸ μύρων ἢ ἀπὸ Μύρωνος ἢ ἀπὸ Μύρου ποταμοῦ παραρρέοντος. ἄμεινον δὲ τὸ πρῶτον. λέγεται καὶ θηλυκῶς καὶ οὐδετέρως. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μυρεύς.

Myra: a city of Lycia, from unguents or from Myron or from the river Myros flowing past. The first is better. Said both in the feminine and the neuter. The ethnonym Myreus.

External translation supplied by Brady Kiesling; reported Claude Fable 5.5 translation. Credit: Brady Kiesling and the Stephanos project (Greg Baker, Gabriel Jower, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling). Not individually verified; exact Greek input not supplied.

Text Details

Entry	#245
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 462.17
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count	25

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μύρα	Myra · place
Λυκία	Lycia · place · corrected · Q18927
Μύρων	Myron · person
Μύρος	Myros (river) · place
Μυρεύς	Myr(e)us (demonym) · people
Μύρα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q652024 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	From μύρων (myron), i.e. from 'myrrh' or 'ointments'/'perfumes' (derivation from the common noun).
Eponym Person	From Μύρωνος (Myronos) — i.e. named after a person called Myronos (personal name).
Place Transfer	From the river Μύρος (Myrus) that flows alongside — i.e. named after a nearby river.
Unclear Metalinguistic	'The first is better' — the author states a preference for the first etymology (from μύρων).

Links

Place links	Myra \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1554.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 3 occurrences
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.261

char LCS 89 (72.4%) · word LCS 19 (76.0%)

Stephanos

Μύρα, πόλις Λυκίας, ἀπὸ μύρων ἢ ἀπὸ Μύρωνος ἢ ἀπὸ Μύρου ποταμοῦ παραρρέοντος. ἄμεινον δὲ τὸ πρῶτον. λέγεται καὶ θηλυκῶς καὶ οὐδετέρως. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μυρεύς.

Herodian

καὶ θύρα ἐκτείνοντα τὸ 'α' καὶ συστέλλοντα τὸ 'υ' παροξύνεται, ὡσαύτως καὶ Μύρα πόλις Λυκίας ἀπὸ μύρων ἢ ἀπὸ Μύρωνος ἢ ἀπὸ Μύρου ποταμοῦ παραρρέοντος· ἄμεινον δὲ τὸ πρῶτον. λέγεται καὶ οὐδετέρως. ὡσαύτως καὶ Ψύρα νῆσος μικρὰ πλησίον Χίου, ἣν ὁ ποιητὴς Ψυρίαν καλεῖ »νήσου ἐπὶ Ψυρίης« (Od. γ 171). τὸ δὲ Κύρα ἡ κρήνη ἐκτεῖνον τὸ 'υ' καὶ τὸ 'α' διὰ τοῦ 'η' ἐξηνέχθη Κύρη. σεσημείωται τὸ πυρά ὀξυνόμενον. τὸ…