Μωθώ

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

Μωθώ OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
village
Entry #267
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 466.5 | Billerbeck: Μ267
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count: 33
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Οὐράνιος (Ouranios) FGrHist 675 F 25
Entities: Μωθώ (Mothō (village)) [place], Ἀραβία (Arabia) [place], Ἀντίοχος (Antiochus) [person], Μακεδών (the Macedonian) [people], Ῥαβῖλος (Rabilus (a king)) [person], Ἄραβες (the Arabs) [people], Μωθηνοί (the Mothenians (inhabitants of Mothō)) [people]
Etymologies: Borrowing Non Greek: which in the Arab tongue means 'place of death'; Morphological Composition: the villagers are called Mothēnoi according to the local (native) form
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Μωθώ, κώμη Ἀραβίας, ἐν ᾗ ἔθανεν Ἀντίγονος ὁ Μακεδὼν ὑπὸ Ῥαβίλου τοῦ βασιλέως τῶν Ἀραβίων, ὡς Οὐράνιος ἐν πέμπτῳ. ὅ ἐστι τῇ Ἀράβων φωνῇ τόπος θανάτου. οἱ κωμῆται Μωθηνοί κατὰ τὸν ἐγχώριον τύπον.
Mōthō: a village of Arabia, in which Antiochus the Macedonian died at the hands of Rabilus, king of the Arabs, as Ouranios relates in book 5. The name means in the Arabic tongue “place of death.” The villagers are called Mōthēnoi, according to the local form.

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