Μυρμήκιον - Stephanos Ethnika

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Μυρμήκιον, πολίχνιον τῆς Ταυρικῆς. Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. Ἡρωδιανὸς διὰ διφθόγγου γράφει καὶ προπερισπᾷ. τὸ ἐθνικόν, ἐὰν μὲν διὰ διφθόγγου, Μυρμηκειεύς, εἰ δὲ διὰ τοῦ « ι » γράφεται, Μυρμήκιος. Ἀρτεμίδωρος δὲ Μυρμηκίαν αὐτήν φησι.

Myrmekion: a small town of the Taurike. Strabo, book 7. Herodian writes it with a diphthong and accents it with a circumflex on the antepenult. The ethnonym, if it is written with a diphthong, is 'Myrmekieus', but if it is written with ι, 'Myrmekios'. Artemidoros says that it itself is 'Myrmekia'.

Text Details

Entry	#253
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 464.1 · Billerbeck Μ253
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count	31
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	ζ (7,4,5 [C 310,20])
Ἡρωδιανός (Herodian)	(2,552,19)
Ἀρτεμίδωρος (Artemidorus)	fr. 69 Stiehle

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μυρμήκιον	Myrmēkion (Myrmekion) · place
Μυρμήκιον	Myrmēkion (acc. form) · place
Ταυρική	Taurica (the Tauric region/Crimea) · place
Μυρμηκειεύς	Myrmēkeieus (demonym) · people
Μυρμήκιος	Myrmēkios (demonym) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	The ethnicon/demonym: if (the name) is written with a diphthong, 'Μυρμηκειεύς'; if written with the letter i (ι), 'Μυρμήκιος'.
Unclear Metalinguistic	Herodian writes it with a diphthong and (adds) a preperispomenon (i.e. a particular orthographic accent/formation).
Unclear Metalinguistic	Artemidorus, however, calls it 'Μυρμηκία' (i.e. he names the place Μυρμηκία).

Links

Place links	Myrmekion
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1567.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.68

char LCS 17 (9.4%) · word LCS 5 (16.1%)

Stephanos

Μυρμήκιον, πολίχνιον τῆς Ταυρικῆς. Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. Ἡρωδιανὸς διὰ διφθόγγου γράφει καὶ προπερισπᾷ. τὸ ἐθνικόν, ἐὰν μὲν διὰ διφθόγγου, Μυρμηκειεύς, εἰ δὲ διὰ τοῦ « ι » γράφεται, Μυρμήκιος. Ἀρτεμίδωρος δὲ Μυρμηκίαν αὐτήν φησι.

Herodian

…άλυσιν τοῦ 'ι', καὶ ὅτι οὐκ ἔχομεν τοιοῦτό τι πατρωνυμικόν, ὃ κατὰ σύλληψιν ἐξηνέχθη τοῦ 'α' καὶ τοῦ 'ι' πρὸ τέλους. παρὰ τὸ Πείραιος οὖν Πειραΐδης ἐγένετο. ὠγενίδης ὁ ἀρχαῖος ἀπὸ Ὠγένου ἀρχαίου θεοῦ. Καὶ τὰ μητρωνυμικὰ δὲ διὰ τοῦ 'ι' γράφεται, Λητοΐδης, Δαναΐδης, Νιοβίδης, ὅθεν τὸ Φιλομηλείδης κύριον λέγεται εἶναι· εἰ γὰρ ἦν μητρωνυμικόν, διὰ τοῦ 'ι' ἐγράφετο ἄν· ἀλλ´ οὐδὲ Ὅμηρος ἀπὸ μητέρων σχηματίζει πατρωνυμικόν, ὥς φησι Διονύσιος. Ἔτι τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'ωδης' β…