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 Tauric. Strabo in the eleventh. Herodian writes it with the diphthong and properispomenon. The ethnic, if with the diphthong, Myrmekeieus, but if written with 'i', Myrmekios. Artemidoros calls it Myrmekia.

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	#253
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 464.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count	31

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 · corrected · Q2360763
Μυρμήκιον	Myrmēkion (acc. form) · place · corrected · Q2360763
Ταυρική	Taurica (the Tauric region/Crimea) · place
Μυρμηκειεύς	Myrmēkeieus (demonym) · people
Μυρμήκιος	Myrmēkios (demonym) · people
Μυρμήκιον	place · explicit · wikidata: Q2360763 · seeded_headword_alignment

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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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 (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" 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 · 5 occurrences
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	διὰ τοῦ + «X» (GREEK LETTER) + [FORM OF γράφειν] formula:93bec21ca1d8a38f	Translate as "writes/write/wrote/is written with X" Domain: SPELLING & PROSODY Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 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 · 4 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	πολίχνιον τό gloss:0f72866d544a72aa	town Domain: SETTLEMENTS/STRUCTURES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	προπερισπάω gloss:5bc4931832242610	accent with circumflex on the ultima Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	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 1.68

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…