Νεών

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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All Letters / Ν Nu / Νεών
Νεών OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
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Νεών, πόλις Φωκίδος. Ἡρόδοτος ὀγδόῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νεώνιος ὡς Ἐλεών Ἐλεώνιος, καὶ Νεωνία καὶ Νεωναῖος.

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Text Details

Entry#41
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 473.10 · Billerbeck Ν41
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count15
Translation statusMostly identical lexical string after the heading; only differences are a punctuation mark after the lemma (middle dot vs comma) and an OCR-corrupted citation/ordinal in Billerbeck ('η̄ .') where Meineke reads 'ὀγδόῃ'.

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Ἡρόδοτος (Herodotus)(8,32,1)
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΝεώνNeon · place
ΦωκίςPhocis · place
ΝεώνιοςNeonios (demonym) · people
ἘλεώνEleon · place
ἘλεώνιοςEleonios (demonym) · people
ΝεωνίαNeonia (demonym) · people
ΝεωναῖοςNeonaeos (demonym) · people
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Unclear MetalinguisticNo etymological explanation is given. The entry simply states: 'Neōn: a city of Phocis. (Herodotus ...) The ethnicon Neōnios, as Eleōn Eleōnios, and Neōnia and Neōnaîos.'

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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.18
char LCS 30 (37.5%) · word LCS 5 (33.3%)
Stephanos
Νεών, πόλις Φωκίδος. Ἡρόδοτος ὀγδόῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νεώνιος ὡς Ἐλεών Ἐλεώνιος, καὶ Νεωνία καὶ Νεωναῖος.
Herodian
…εται ὡς Πλάτων, τὰ δὲ περισπᾶται ὡς Ξενοφῶν. Τὰ εἰς 'ων' ἀρσενικὰ δισύλλαβα παραληγόμενα 'α' βραχεῖ ἢ 'ε' βαρύνεται, μὴ ὄντα περιεκτικά, Φάων, Κάων, Κρέων, Θέων, Κλέων, λέων, Νέων, νεών δὲ ὡς περιεκτικόν· ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ Νεών πόλις Φωκίδος. Ἡρόδοτος ὀγδόῃ (c. 32). Τὰ εἰς 'ων' παραληγόμενα 'α' μακρῷ βαρύνεται, Ἄων ἔθνος Βοιωτίας, Δάων ἔθνος τῆς Ἰνδικῆς ἀπὸ Δάονος, Χάων ἔθνος Ἠπείρου. Ἑλλάνικος ἱερειῶν Ἥρας τρίτῳ «Ἀμβρακιῶται καὶ οἱ μετ´ αὐτῶν Χάονες καὶ Ἠπειρῶται». καὶ ὁ Πρόξενος δὲ…

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