Μῶλυς - Stephanos Ethnika

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city

Entry #268
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 466.9 | Billerbeck: Μ268
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count: 16
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus) FGrHist 1 F 350 [Περιηγήσει Λιβύης]
Entities: Μῶλυς (Môlys (Molys)) [place], Λίβυσσα (Libyssa) [place], Λιβύη (Libya) [place], Μωλύτης (Molytes (demonym)) [other], Μωλυάτης (Molyatēs (variant demonym)) [other], Λίβυσσα ((of) the Libyssae / Libyssans (gen. pl.)) [people]
Etymologies: Morphological Composition: The ethnicon (demonym) Μωλύτης according to the pattern/type of the Libyssan cities, and Μωλυάτης.
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Μῶλυς, Λίβυσσα πόλις. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Λιβύης. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μωλύτης τῷ τύπῳ τῶν Λιβυσσῶν πόλεων καὶ Μωλυάτης.

Mōlys: a Libyan city. Hecataeus, in the *Periēgēsis* of Libya. The ethnic is **Mōlytēs**, in accordance with the pattern of Libyan cities, and also **Mōlyuatēs**.

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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.