Νάρβων - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #13
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 469.10 | Billerbeck: Ν13
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count: 29
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Στράβων (Strabo) (4,1,6 [C 181,27]) [Γεωγραφικά (Geography)], Μαρκιανός (Marcianus) Epit. 5 [GGM 1,574,22] [Epitome], Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus) FGrHist 1 F 54
Entities: Νάρβων (Narbo (Narbonne)) [place], Ναρβωνησία (Narbonensian region (Narbonesia)) [place], Ναρβωνίτης (inhabitant of Narbo (Narbonite)) [people], Ἀσκαλωνίτης (inhabitant of Ascalon (Ascalonite)) [people], Ναρβωνῖτις (Lake Narbonitis) [place], Ἄταξ (Atax (river)) [place], Ναρβαῖοι (the Narbaians (inhabitants of Narbo)) [people]
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Νάρβων, ἐμπόριον καὶ πόλις Κελτική. Στράβων τετάρτῃ. Μαρκιανὸς δὲ Ναρβωνησίαν αὐτήν φησι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ναρβωνίτης ὡς Ἀσκαλωνίτης. ἔστι καὶ λίμνη Ναρβωνῖτις, ὡς Ἀσκαλωνῖτις. καὶ ποταμὸς Ἄταξ. Ἑκαταῖος καὶ Ναρβαίους αὐτούς φησι.

Narbon: an emporion and a Celtic city. Strabo, book 4. Marcianus (Epitome 5) says that it is (called) Narbonēsia. The ethnic adjective is Narbonitēs, as Askalōnitēs. There are also Lake Narbonitis and the river Atax. Hecataeus says that they are called Narbaioi.

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Herodian 1.22

char LCS 43 (23.2%) · word LCS 7 (22.6%)

Stephanos

Νάρβων, ἐμπόριον καὶ πόλις Κελτική. Στράβων τετάρτῃ. Μαρκιανὸς δὲ Ναρβωνησίαν αὐτήν φησι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ναρβωνίτης ὡς Ἀσκαλωνίτης. ἔστι καὶ λίμνη Ναρβωνῖτις, ὡς Ἀσκαλωνῖτις. καὶ ποταμὸς Ἄταξ. Ἑκαταῖος καὶ Ναρβαίους αὐτούς φησι.

Herodian

…γενικὴν τρέποντα τὸ 'ω' εἰς 'ο' ὀξύνεται, ἀλεκτρυών, Γηρυών, Κερκυών, Ἀμφικτυών, κελενδρυών, κολοκτρυών. Τὰ εἰς 'βων' δισύλλαβα ἀρσενικὰ βαρύνεται, εἰ μὴ μέρος σώματος δηλοῖ οἷον στίλβων, Στίβων, τρίβων, Στράβων, ἄμβων, Νάρβων ἐμπόριον καὶ πόλις Κελτική. Στράβων τετάρτῃ, Σίρβων