Νέαι

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

Νέαι OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
island
Entry #24
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 470.22 | Billerbeck: Ν24
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count: 31
AI prompt: v1
Entities: Νέαι (Neai (island name)) [place], Λῆμνος (Lemnos) [place], Φιλοκτήτης (Philoctetes) [person], Ἡρακλῆς (Heracles) [deity], Νεαῖος (Neaean (ethnicon, inhabitant of Neai)) [people], Νέα (Nea (village)) [place], Μυσία (Mysia) [place]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: It was named from Heracles' having swum (approached by swimming) to it.
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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.
Neai: an island near Lemnos, on which, according to some, Philoctetes was bitten by a water-snake. It was so named from Heracles’ having swum up to it. The ethnic (gentilic) is Neaios. There is also Nea, a village and fort of Mysia; the ethnic is the same.

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