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.

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Text Details

Entry	#9
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 468.7 · Billerbeck Ν9
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count	107

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

Place links	Naxos \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1593.jpg
Review	Open review page

Herodian overlaps

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

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…