Μύρινα - Stephanos Ethnika

Μύρινα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Μύρινα, πόλις ἐν Λήμνῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἔστι καὶ τῆς Αἰολίδος ἄλλη. ἀπὸ Μυρίνης ἀμφότεραι ἢ ἀπὸ Μυρίνου. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μυριναῖος, Μυριναία δὲ ἐπὶ τῆς χώρας, καὶ οὐδετέρως Μυριναῖον.

Myrine, Myrinos, Myrrina, Myryna">Myrina: a city in Lemnos. Hekataios in the Europe. There is also another of Aiolis. Both from Myrine or from Myrinos. The ethnonym Myrinaios, Myrinaia for the land, and in the neuter Myrinaion.

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	#250
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 463.10
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count	28

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Εὐρώπῃ · FGrHist 1 F 138c

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μυρίνα	Myrina · place · corrected · Q2310605
Λήμνος	Lemnos · place · corrected · Q192483
Αἰολίς	Aeolis · place · corrected · Q255325
Μυρίνη	Myrine · person · corrected · Q609532
Μυρίνος	Myrinus · person
Μυριναῖος	Myrinaean (demonym) · people
Μυριναῖα	Myrinaean (fem.) · people
Μυριναῖον	Myrinaean (neut.) · people
Myrina in Lemnos	place · city · Lemnos · explicit · wikidata: Q2310605 · candidate
Myrina in Aeolis	place · city · Aeolis · explicit · wikidata: Q609532 · candidate
Myrine / Myrinis (source or form reference)	place · place name source/form · uncertain · explicit · unresolved

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	Both (cities) are named from Myrine or from Myrinos.
Unclear Metalinguistic	The ethnicon is 'Myrinaîos'; 'Myrinaía' for the district, and neuter 'Myrinaion' — a discussion of name-forms rather than origin.

Links

Place links	Myrina \| 📍 Map
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1561.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:5e7f1861601f28d1	*Translate as "X, book Y in his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 2 scan rows · 4 occurrences
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
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.258

char LCS 74 (51.4%) · word LCS 15 (53.6%)

Stephanos

Μύρινα, πόλις ἐν Λήμνῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἔστι καὶ τῆς Αἰολίδος ἄλλη. ἀπὸ Μυρίνης ἀμφότεραι ἢ ἀπὸ Μυρίνου. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μυριναῖος, Μυριναία δὲ ἐπὶ τῆς χώρας, καὶ οὐδετέρως Μυριναῖον.

Herodian

…ῆσος, ὡς Ἀρτεμίδωρος. Βέμβινα κώμη τῆς Νεμέας. Ἑλλάνικος δὲ Βέμβινον καὶ πόλιν φησίν. Βίλβινα πόλις Περσική. Μέλινα πόλις Ἄργους, ἀφ´ ἧς Ἀφροδίτη Μελιναία τιμᾶται. Λυκόφρων »τὴν Καστνίαν δὲ καὶ Μελιναίαν θεόν« (v. 403). Μύρινα πόλις ἐν Λήμνῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἔστι καὶ τῆς Αἰολίδος ἄλλη. ἀπὸ Μυρίνης ἀμφότεραι ἢ Μυρίνου. Σάνινα πόλις ἐπὶ τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης. Κάρμινα νῆσος Ἰνδική. Ἄλινα νῆσος Λυκίας. Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἐν ἐπιτομῆς πρώτῳ. Κύτινα πόλις Θεσσαλίας, ὡς Θέων ἐν ὑπομνήματι Λυκόφρονος. Λάγινα πολίχνιον Καρίας. Ἀπολλώνιος Καρι…

Herodian 1.59

char LCS 26 (18.1%) · word LCS 5 (17.9%)

Stephanos

Μύρινα, πόλις ἐν Λήμνῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἔστι καὶ τῆς Αἰολίδος ἄλλη. ἀπὸ Μυρίνης ἀμφότεραι ἢ ἀπὸ Μυρίνου. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μυριναῖος, Μυριναία δὲ ἐπὶ τῆς χώρας, καὶ οὐδετέρως Μυριναῖον.

Herodian

…κάτη Κύπρου. εἰσὶ καὶ δύο νησίδια πλησίον τῆς Λιβύης. ἔστι καὶ Ἀλεξανδρείας. Τελμισσιάς, ἄκρα Λυκίας, ὡς Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἐν δεκάτῳ γεωγραφουμένων. Βολογεσσιάς πόλις πρὸς τῷ Εὐφράτῃ ἐκ Βολογεσσοῦ βασιλέως ᾠκισμένη. Ἡφαιστιάς πόλις ἐν Λήμνῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Κεραστιάς καὶ Κεραστίς ἐκαλεῖτο ἡ Κύπρος ἀπὸ τοῦ πολλὰς ἄκρας ἔχειν. τὸ μέντοι μέγας καὶ λᾶας «λᾶας ἀναιδής» (Δ 521) συστέλλοντα τὸ 'α' ὅμως βαρύνονται, ἐπειδὴ οὐ διὰ τοῦ 'δος' κλίνονται. ἡμάρτηται δὲ τὸ μέγας περὶ τὴν…