Ναύκρατις - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ναύκρατις, πόλις Αἰγύπτου, ἀπὸ Μιλησίων τότε θαλασσοκρατούντων. καὶ Στράβων ἑπτακαιδεκάτῃ. ὁ πολίτης Ναυκρατίτης καὶ θηλυκῶς, καὶ Ναυκρατιώτης ὡς Πηλουσιώτης, ἴσως ἀπὸ τοῦ Ναυκράτιον ἢ Ναυκρατία, ὡς Ἰταλία Ἰταλιώτης.

Naukratis: a city of Egypt, founded when the Milesians held thalassocracy. Strabo too mentions it in Book 17. The citizen is called Naukratitēs, and also Naukratiōtēs, as Pelousiōtēs; perhaps from Naukration or Naukratia, just as from Italia comes Italiōtēs.

Text Details

Entry	#21
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 470.12 · Billerbeck Ν21
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count	28
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v1 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	ιζ̄ (17,1,18 [C 801,33])

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ναύκρατις	Naucratis · place
Αἴγυπτος	Egypt · place
Μιλήσιοι	Milesians (inhabitants of Miletus) · people
Ναυκρατίτης	Naucratian (male inhabitant of Naucratis) · people
Ναυκρατιώτης	Naucratian (alternate demonym) · people
Ναύκρατιον	Naucration (variant name of Naucratis) · place
Ναυκρατία	Naucratia (variant name) · place
Πηλουσιώτης	inhabitant of Pelusium (Pelusiote) · people
Ἰταλία	Italy · place
Ἰταλιώτης	Italian (inhabitant of Italy) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Place Transfer	from the Milesians, who at that time were masters of the sea.
Morphological Composition	perhaps from Naukration or Naukratia, as Italia → Italiotes (i.e. the demonym derives from that form of the place-name).
Morphological Composition	the citizen (demonym) is Ναυκρατίτης (and feminine form) and Ναυκρατιώτης, like Πελουσιώτης (Pelusiotes) — discussion of demonym formation.

Links

Place links	Naucratis \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1609.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.103

char LCS 54 (29.8%) · word LCS 7 (25.0%)

Stephanos

Ναύκρατις, πόλις Αἰγύπτου, ἀπὸ Μιλησίων τότε θαλασσοκρατούντων. καὶ Στράβων ἑπτακαιδεκάτῃ. ὁ πολίτης Ναυκρατίτης καὶ θηλυκῶς, καὶ Ναυκρατιώτης ὡς Πηλουσιώτης, ἴσως ἀπὸ τοῦ Ναυκράτιον ἢ Ναυκρατία, ὡς Ἰταλία Ἰταλιώτης.

Herodian

… ἀπὸ ἀρσενικῶν εἰς 'ης' γενόμενα. * Τὰ εἰς 'τις' ὀνόματα πόλεων πολυσύλλαβα τῷ 'α' ἢ 'ο' παραληγόμενα βαρύνεται, Κάλλατις πολίχνιον ἐν τῇ παραλίᾳ τοῦ Πόντου. Στράβων ἑβδόμῃ· ὡς κάλαθος εὑρέθη ἐοικὼς τοῖς θεσμοφοριακοῖς. Ναύκρατις πόλις Αἰγύπτου ἀπὸ Μιλησίων τότε θαλασσοκρατούντων ὡς Στράβων ἑπτακαιδεκάτῃ. Ὀνείβατις πόλις Αἰγύπτου Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Λιβύης. Ἰαγξούατις πόλις Λιβύων. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Ἄβοτις πόλις Αἰγύπτου, ὡς Ἑκαταῖος. Κράμβοτις πόλις Αἰγύπτου, ἣν Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Λιβύης Κράμβουτ…