Μύρα

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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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 Lykia, from myrrh, or from Myron, or from the river Myros flowing by. The first is better. It is also said in the feminine and in the neuter. The ethnonym is 'Myreus'.

Text Details

Entry#245
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 462.17 · Billerbeck Μ245
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count25
AI translationlegacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΜύραMyra · place
ΛυκίαLycia · place
ΜύρωνMyron · person
ΜύροςMyros (river) · place
ΜυρεύςMyr(e)us (demonym) · people
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Morphological CompositionFrom μύρων (myron), i.e. from 'myrrh' or 'ointments'/'perfumes' (derivation from the common noun).
Eponym PersonFrom Μύρωνος (Myronos) — i.e. named after a person called Myronos (personal name).
Place TransferFrom 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).

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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…

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