Νάξος - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #9
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 468.7 | Billerbeck: Ν9
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count: 107
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Εὐφορίων (Euphorion) fr. 173 Lightfoot = fr. 169 Powell, Ἀσκληπιάδης (Asclepiades) FGrHist 501 F 4
Entities: Νάξος (Naxos) [place], Κυκλάδες (Cyclades) [place], Κάρες (Carians) [people], Ἐνδυμίων (Endymion) [person], Νάξιοι (Naxians) [people], Ἥρα (Hera) [deity], Διόνυσος (Dionysus) [deity], Σικελία (Sicily) [place], Ναξιὰς (Naxias (f., eponym)) [person], Νάξιος (Naxios (eponym)) [person]
Etymologies: 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'.
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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 from Naxos, a leader of the Carians. Others (derive it) from Naxos son of Endymion. Euphorion, however, derives it from naxai, which they say some use in the sense ‘to sacrifice’. Asclepiades relates that the women of the Naxians alone give birth at eight months, either because Hera, having become friendly toward Dionysus, granted this as a gift to the Naxian women, or because Dionysus himself was also born in this way; and (he relates) that there is there a spring from which wine flows, very sweet. There are also a city of Sicily and other places (called) Naxos. The ethnic (gentilic) is Naxioi; whence also (comes) Naxia lithos, the Cretan whetstone. A feminine form is also said, Naxias, from Naxios. But ‘kritikē akonē’ (‘Cretan whetstone’), if written with iota, means ‘that which distinguishes and makes manifest’.

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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…