Μυρμήκιον - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #253
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 464.1 | Billerbeck: Μ253
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count: 31
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Στράβων (Strabo) ζ (7,4,5 [C 310,20]), Ἡρωδιανός (Herodian) (2,552,19), Ἀρτεμίδωρος (Artemidorus) fr. 69 Stiehle
Entities: 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: 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).
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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.

Myrmēkion: a small town of the Tauric region. Strabo, book 7. Herodian writes it with a diphthong and accents it with a circumflex on the antepenult. The ethnicon, if it is written with a diphthong, is Myrmēkeieus; but if it is written with iota, Myrmēkios. Artemidoros, however, says that it itself is (called) Myrmēkia.

Herodian overlaps

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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…