Μῶλυς - Stephanos Ethnika

Μῶλυς OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Μῶλυς, Λίβυσσα πόλις. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Λιβύης. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μωλύτης τῷ τύπῳ τῶν Λιβυσσῶν πόλεων καὶ Μωλυάτης.

Molys: a Libyan city. Hekataios in the Periegesis of Libya. The ethnonym Molytes by the type of the Libyan cities, and Molyates.

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	#268
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 466.9
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count	16

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Περιηγήσει Λιβύης · FGrHist 1 F 350

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μῶλυς	Môlys (Molys) · place
Λίβυσσα	Libyssa · place · corrected · Q65088659
Λιβύη	Libya · place · corrected · Q2370577
Μωλύτης	Molytes (demonym) · other
Μωλυάτης	Molyatēs (variant demonym) · other
Λίβυσσα	(of) the Libyssae / Libyssans (gen. pl.) · people · corrected · Q65088659

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon (demonym) Μωλύτης according to the pattern/type of the Libyssan cities, and Μωλυάτης.

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 2 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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.237

char LCS 41 (45.1%) · word LCS 6 (37.5%)

Stephanos

Μῶλυς, Λίβυσσα πόλις. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Λιβύης. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μωλύτης τῷ τύπῳ τῶν Λιβυσσῶν πόλεων καὶ Μωλυάτης.

Herodian

…όμενα βαρύνεται, γένυς, πίτυς, χέλυς, γῆρυς, ἀτράφαξυς εἶδος λαχάνου, ἄμαξυς, κόρυς, κῶμυς, ἔγχελυς· οἱ δὲ Ἐγχελεῖς ἔθνος Ἰλλυρικὸν ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἐγχελής ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἐγχελεύς. λέγεται καὶ Ἐγχελέαι ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἐγχελέης ἢ Ἐγχελέας. Μῶλυς Λίβυσσα πόλις. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Λιβύης. Κῶβρυς πόλις Θρᾴκης. Θεόπομπος Φιλιππικῶν ἐνάτῳ. Αἶγυς πόλις Λιγυστική, ὡς Εὐφορίων.