Νάξος - Stephanos Ethnika

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Νάξος, νῆσος τῶν Κυκλάδων, ἡ διάσημος, ἀπὸ τοῦ Νάξου Καρῶν ἡγεμόνος. ἄλλοι δὲ ἀπὸ Νάξου τοῦ Ἐνδυμίωνος. Εὐφορίων δὲ παρὰ τὸ νάξαι, ὅ φασι θῦσαί τινες. Ἀσκληπιάδης ἱστορεῖ τὰς Ναξίων γυναῖκας μόνας ὀκτάμηνα τίκτειν, ἢ διὰ τὸ τὴν Ἥραν φίλην γενομένην τῷ Διονύσῳ ταῖς Ναξίαις τοῦτο δῶρον παρασχεῖν, ἢ ὅτι καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ Διόνυσος οὕτως ἐτέχθη. καὶ ὅτι ἐστὶν ἐκεῖ κρήνη, ἐξ ἧς οἶνος ῥεῖ μάλα ἡδύς. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Σικελίας. καὶ ἄλλοι τόποι Νάξοι. τὰ ἐθνικὰ Νάξιοι, ἀφ´ οὗ καὶ Ναξία λίθος ἡ Κρητικὴ ἀκόνη. λέγεται καὶ θηλυκὸν Ναξιάς ἀπὸ τοῦ Νάξιος. τὸ δὲ κριτικὴ ἀκόνη, ἐὰν διὰ τοῦ « ι » γράφηται, ἡ διακρίνουσα καὶ φανεροῦσα σημαίνει.

Naxos: an island of the Cyclades, the famous one, named after Naxos, leader of the Karians. Others derive it from Naxos, son of Endymion. Euphorion derives it from the form 'naxai', which some say is 'to sacrifice'. Asklepiades reports that Naxian women alone give birth at eight months, either because Hera, after becoming dear to Dionysos, bestowed this gift on the Naxian women, or because Dionysos himself too was born in this way; and that there is a fountain there, from which very sweet wine flows. There is also a city in Sicily. And there are other places called Naxoi. The ethnonyms are 'Naxioi', as per also 'Naxia stone', the Cretan whetstone. A feminine form 'Naxias' is also said, from 'Naxios'. But 'critical whetstone', if it is written with ι, means the stone that distinguishes and makes manifest.

Text Details

Entry	#9
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 468.7
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count	107
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Εὐφορίων (Euphorion)	fr. 173 Lightfoot = fr. 169 Powell
Ἀσκληπιάδης (Asclepiades)	FGrHist 501 F 4

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Νάξος	Naxos · place · corrected · Q3870520
Κυκλάδες	Cyclades · place · corrected · Q171132
Κάρες	Carians · people
Ἐνδυμίων	Endymion · person · corrected · Q272047
Νάξιοι	Naxians · people
Ἥρα	Hera · deity · corrected · Q38012
Διόνυσος	Dionysus · deity · corrected · Q41680
Σικελία	Sicily · place · corrected · Q4951156
Ναξιὰς	Naxias (f., eponym) · person
Νάξιος	Naxios (eponym) · person
Νάξος	place · explicit · wikidata: Q96575378 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	From Naxus, leader of the Carians.
Eponym Person	Others (say) from Naxus, (son) of Endymion.
Morphological Composition	Euphorion (says) from the verb 'νάξαι', which some render 'βῦσαί'.
Folk Etymology Narrative	Asclepiades reports that the women of the Naxiots give birth only after eight months — either because Hera, having become a friend of Dionysus, granted this gift to the Naxiads, or because Dionysus himself was born thus.
Folk Etymology Narrative	And that there is there a spring from which wine flows very sweet (offered as an explanation).
Place Transfer	The ethnicon 'Naxioi', from which also the 'Naxia' stone (the Cretan whetstone) is named.
Morphological Composition	It is also said that the feminine 'Naxias' comes from 'Naxios'.
Morphological Composition	And the Cretan whetstone, if written with an iota, means 'the distinguishing and revealing'.

Links

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Page scans	e9783110219630_i1593.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	[NO ANTECEDENT] + ἀφ' οὗ + Y (DERIVED NOUN) formula:85dbc02f91e20d41	Translate as "as per 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (MASCULINE ETYMON) + ἀφ' οὗ + Y (DERIVED NOUN) formula:04e9b95236efcdc4	Translate as "X... from/after whom is 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (NEUTER ETYMON) + ἀφ' οὗ + Y (DERIVED NOUN) formula:36c80425f64385f6	Translate as "X... from which is Y" or "X... as per 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 2 scan rows · 3 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + παρά + τό + Y (ETYMON) formula:e1b19e84652cc7be	Translate as "X is deriving/derives from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + παρά + τό + Y (INFINITIVE denoting an etymology) formula:af28c8e3172cf77e	Translate as "X is deriving/derives from the Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 4 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 6 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 5 occurrences
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	διὰ τοῦ + «X» (GREEK LETTER) + [FORM OF γράφειν] formula:93bec21ca1d8a38f	Translate as "writes/write/wrote/is written with X" Domain: SPELLING & PROSODY 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	διαίρεσις ἡ gloss:32385cdfa347bd24	diaresis (i.e. the punctuation mark) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	διάσημος -η -ον gloss:ab7dd01e159fa074	renowned, (made) famous Domain: OTHER TERMS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	κρήνη ἡ gloss:55d407396b89d66e	fountain, well Domain: WATER BODIES/COASTS	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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Herodian 1.186

char LCS 88 (17.8%) · word LCS 20 (18.7%)

Stephanos

Νάξος, νῆσος τῶν Κυκλάδων, ἡ διάσημος, ἀπὸ τοῦ Νάξου Καρῶν ἡγεμόνος. ἄλλοι δὲ ἀπὸ Νάξου τοῦ Ἐνδυμίωνος. Εὐφορίων δὲ παρὰ τὸ νάξαι, ὅ φασι θῦσαί τινες. Ἀσκληπιάδης ἱστορεῖ τὰς Ναξίων γυναῖκας μόνας ὀκτάμηνα τίκτειν, ἢ διὰ τὸ τὴν Ἥραν φίλην γενομένην τῷ Διονύσῳ ταῖς Ναξίαις τοῦτο δῶρον παρασχεῖν, ἢ ὅτι καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ Διόνυσος οὕτως ἐτέχθη. καὶ ὅτι ἐστὶν ἐκεῖ κρήνη, ἐξ ἧς …

Herodian

… Μαυριτανίας καὶ ἔθνος. Λάκοξος, Ῥοῖξος ἐπίνειον Κιλικίας ἐπὶ ταῖς ἐκβολαῖς τοῦ Σάρου ποταμοῦ. Κρόξος, Βόξος, Λάοξος ὁ ποταμός. Ὦξος ὁ ποταμός. Ἄξος πόλις Κρήτης ὡς Ἡρόδοτος ἐν τετάρτῃ (c. 154), Νάξος νῆσος τῶν Κυκλάδων ἀπὸ τοῦ Νάξου Καρῶν ἡγεμόνος, ἄλλοι δὲ ἀπὸ Νάξου τοῦ Ἐνδυμίωνος. Εὐφορίων δὲ παρὰ τὸ νάξαι, ὅ φασι θῦσαί τινες. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Σικελίας. καὶ ἄλλοι τόποι Νάξοι. Ὄαξος πόλις Κρήτης Ἐλευθέρνης οὐ πόρρω, καθὰ Ξενίων ἀπὸ Ὀάξου τοῦ Ἀκακαλλίδος τῆς θυγατρὸς τοῦ Μίνω. τινὲς δὲ διὰ τὸ καταγῆναι τὸν τόπον καὶ κρημνώδη ὑπάρχειν. καλοῦσι γὰ…