Νέαι - Stephanos Ethnika

Νέαι OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

island

Νέαι, νῆσος πλησίον Λήμνου, ἐν ᾗ Φιλοκτήτης κατά τινας ἐδήχθη ὑπὸ ὕδρου. ἐκλήθη δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ προσνήξασθαι Ἡρακλέα. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νεαῖος. ἔστι καὶ Νέα κώμη φρούριον Μυσίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν τὸ αὐτό.

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Text Details

Entry	#24
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 470.22
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count	31

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Νέαι	Neai (island name) · place
Λῆμνος	Lemnos · place · corrected · Q192483
Φιλοκτήτης	Philoctetes · person
Ἡρακλῆς	Heracles · deity · corrected · Q122248
Νεαῖος	Neaean (ethnicon, inhabitant of Neai) · people
Νέα	Nea (village) · place
Μυσία	Mysia · place · corrected · Q622319

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	It was named from Heracles' having swum (approached by swimming) to it.

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (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 · 1 occurrence
Formula	X... πλησίον + Y. (genitive) formula:3d243d130e764a8b	Translate as "X... near Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	τὸ 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 · 2 occurrences
Gloss	καλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται/ἐκλήθη (ἀπο...) gloss:ef7a95cd709173ed	is/used to be/is/was called/named after (+ ἀπο) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.