Μύρλεια

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

Μύρλεια OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
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Entry #252
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 463.17 | Billerbeck: Μ252
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count: 50
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Στράβων (Strabo) (12,3,22 [C 551,11])
Entities: Μύρλεια (Myrleia) [place], Βιθυνία (Bithynia) [place], Ἀπάμεια (Apameia (Apamea)) [place], Μύρλος (Myrlos) [person], Κολοφῶνιοι (Colophonians) [people], Νικόμηδης ὁ Ἐπιφανής (Nicomedes Epiphanes) [person], Προυσίας (Prusias) [person], Ἀπάμα (Apama) [person], Ἀμαζόνες (Amazons) [people], Μυρλεανός (Myrlean (citizen/demonym)) [people], Ἀσκληπιάδης (Asclepiades) [person], Μυρλεάτης (Myrleates) [person], Μυρλεανός κόλπος (Myrlean Gulf) [place]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: From Myrlos, the leader (hegemon) of the Colophonians.; Eponym Person: He named (it) Apameia after his mother Apama.; Eponym Person: Strabo calls the region Myrleatis, perhaps from (the person) Myrleates.
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Μύρλεια, πόλις Βιθυνίας, ἡ νῦν λεγομένη Ἀπάμεια ἀπὸ Μύρλου τοῦ Κολοφωνίων ἡγεμόνος. Νικομήδης δὲ ὁ Ἐπιφανής, Προυσίου δὲ υἱός, ἀπὸ τῆς μητρὸς Ἀπάμας Ἀπάμειαν ὠνόμασεν· οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ Μυρλείας Ἀμαζόνος. ὁ πολίτης Μυρλεανός, ὡς Ἀσκληπιάδης Μυρλεανὸς ἀναγράφεται. Στράβων δὲ Μυρλεᾶτιν καλεῖ τὴν χώραν, ἴσως ἀπὸ τοῦ Μυρλεάτης. ἔστι καὶ Μυρλεανὸς κόλπος.
Myrlēa: a city of Bithynia, now Apameia. (So called) from Myrlos, leader of the Colophonians. Nicomedes surnamed Epiphanēs, son of Prusias, renamed it Apameia after his mother Apama; others (derive the name) from Myrlēa, an Amazon. The citizen is Myrlēanos, as in the record “Asklēpiadēs the Myrlēanos.” Strabo calls the region Myrlēatis, perhaps from the (ethnic) Myrlēatēs. There is also a Gulf of Myrlēanos.

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