Μύρσινος - Stephanos Ethnika

Μύρσινος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Entry #257
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 464.14 | Billerbeck: Μ257
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count: 15
AI prompt: v1
Entities: Μύρσινος (Myrsinos (Myrsinus)) [place], Ἤλις (Elis) [place], Μυρτούντιον (Myrtountion (later name)) [place], Μυρτούσιος (Myrtousios (ethnic/demonym)) [people]
Etymologies: Unclear Metalinguistic: Myrsinus: a city of Elis.; Unclear Metalinguistic: "and Myrsinos, the outermost." (B 616); Unclear Metalinguistic: but later it was called Myrtountion.; Unclear Metalinguistic: the ethnicon is found as Myrtousios.
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Μύρσινος, πόλις Ἤλιδος. “καὶ Μύρσινος ἐσχατόωσα”. ὕστερον δὲ Μυρτούντιον ἐκλήθη. τὸ ἐθνικὸν εὕρηται Μυρτούσιος.

Myrsinos: a city of Elis. “and Myrsinos at the farthest edge” (Il. 2.616). Later it was called Myrtountion. The ethnic is found as Myrtousios.

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.182

char LCS 39 (42.9%) · word LCS 6 (42.9%)

Stephanos

Μύρσινος, πόλις Ἤλιδος. “καὶ Μύρσινος ἐσχατόωσα”. ὕστερον δὲ Μυρτούντιον ἐκλήθη. τὸ ἐθνικὸν εὕρηται Μυρτούσιος.

Herodian

… κρίθινος, δάφνινος, φήγινος, πύρινος, ξύλινος, λίθινος, δρύϊνος, πέτρινος, γήϊνος, δερμάτινος, βύσσινος. τούτοις ὅμοια καὶ τὸ κότινος καὶ κόφινος προσηγορικὰ καὶ τὰ κύρια, Σίκινος νῆσος περὶ τὴν Κρήτην. Στράβων δεκάτῃ. Μύρσινος πόλις Ἤλιδος «καὶ Μύρσινος ἐσχατόωσα» (Β 616) καὶ τὰ κτητικὰ Βίβλινος «Βίβλινος οἶνος» ἀπὸ Βιβλίνης χώρας Θρᾴκης. Βολβίτινος «Βολβίτινον ἅρμα» ἀπὸ Βολβιτίνης πόλεως Αἰγύπτου. τὰ μέντοι ἐπὶ καιροῦ ἢ ἀπὸ ἐπιρρήματος ὀξύνεται οἷον θερινός, χειμερινός, ἐαρινός…