Νάξος

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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 textmeineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source idMeineke 468.7
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count107

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Εὐφορίων (Euphorion)fr. 173 Lightfoot = fr. 169 Powell
Ἀσκληπιάδης (Asclepiades)FGrHist 501 F 4
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΝάξοςNaxos · place · corrected · Q3870520
ΚυκλάδεςCyclades · place · corrected · Q171132
ΚάρεςCarians · people
ἘνδυμίωνEndymion · person · corrected · Q272047
ΝάξιοιNaxians · people
ἭραHera · deity · corrected · Q38012
ΔιόνυσοςDionysus · deity · corrected · Q41680
ΣικελίαSicily · place · corrected · Q4951156
ΝαξιὰςNaxias (f., eponym) · person
ΝάξιοςNaxios (eponym) · person
Νάξοςplace · explicit · wikidata: Q96575378 · seeded_headword_alignment
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Eponym PersonFrom Naxus, leader of the Carians.
Eponym PersonOthers (say) from Naxus, (son) of Endymion.
Morphological CompositionEuphorion (says) from the verb 'νάξαι', which some render 'βῦσαί'.
Folk Etymology NarrativeAsclepiades 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 NarrativeAnd that there is there a spring from which wine flows very sweet (offered as an explanation).
Place TransferThe ethnicon 'Naxioi', from which also the 'Naxia' stone (the Cretan whetstone) is named.
Morphological CompositionIt is also said that the feminine 'Naxias' comes from 'Naxios'.
Morphological CompositionAnd the Cretan whetstone, if written with an iota, means 'the distinguishing and revealing'.

Links

Place linksNaxos | 📍 Map | Pleiades
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Translation Guidance

KindRuleGuidanceDetection
FormulaX (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 · 2 occurrences
FormulaX (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
FormulaX (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN)
formula:276bf314e3ad9973
Translate as "X, X"
Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 3 occurrences
FormulaX (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 · 1 scan row · 3 occurrences
FormulaX (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 · 1 scan row · 3 occurrences
FormulaX (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE)
formula:0a6d211492d74a05
Translate as "a X of the Y"
Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formulaτὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM)
formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3
Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'"
Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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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…

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