Μυσία - Stephanos Ethnika

Μυσία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

region

Μυσία, χώρα καὶ πόλις. Λυδοὶ δὲ τὴν ὀξύην μυσόν φασι. λέγονται καὶ Μυσοί καὶ Μύσιοι καὶ Μυσάδιος αἰολικῶς.

Mysia: a land and city. The Lydians call the beech 'mysos'. They are also called Mysoi and Mysioi and Mysadios in Aiolic.

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	#260
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 464.21
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count	18

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μυσία	Mysia · place
Λυδοί	Lydians · people
Μυσοί	Mysians · people
Μυσοί	Mysians · people
Μυσάδιος	Mysadios (Aeolic form) · other
Μυσία	place · explicit · wikidata: Q622319 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Folk Etymology Narrative	But the Lydians say that 'muson' (Mysia) is from 'oxys' (ὀξύ), i.e. 'sharp' — a Lydian explanation of the name's origin.
Morphological Composition	They are also called 'Mysoi' and 'Mysioi' (alternative forms of the ethnonym/name).
Morphological Composition	And 'Mysadios' in Aeolic (a dialectal/derivative form of the name).

Links

Place links	Mysia \| 📍 Map
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1570.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	καί + X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + Y (nominative PROPER NOUN) formula:0af867b3dd6df580	Translate as "Y is also 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.293

char LCS 36 (42.4%) · word LCS 9 (50.0%)

Stephanos

Μυσία, χώρα καὶ πόλις. Λυδοὶ δὲ τὴν ὀξύην μυσόν φασι. λέγονται καὶ Μυσοί καὶ Μύσιοι καὶ Μυσάδιος αἰολικῶς.

Herodian

…μισε τοῦ πατρὸς Μίνω διώκοντος αὐτήν. ἔοικε οὖν Διονυσία εἶναι καὶ κατὰ παραφθορὰν Δονουσία. Μασσία χώρα παρακειμένη τοῖς Ταρτησσίοις. Ἑκατησία· οὕτως ἡ Ἰδριὰς πόλις ἐκαλεῖτο Καρίας. Μολοσσία ἡ χώρα τῆς Ἠπείρου. Μυσία ἡ χώρα καὶ πόλις. Λυδοὶ δὲ τὴν ὀξύην μυσόν φασι. Νικασία νησίδιον μικρὸν πλησίον Νάξου. Παρρασία πόλις Ἀρκαδίας. Ὅμηρος (Β 608) «Στύμφηλόν τ´ εἶχον καὶ Παρρασίην ἐνέμοντο» ἀπὸ Παρράσου ἑνὸς τῶν Λυκάονος παίδων. Χάραξ δὲ κτίσμα Πελασγοῦ ἐν πρώτῳ χρονικῶν οὕτως «Πελασγ…