Νήρικος - Stephanos Ethnika

Νήρικος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Νήρικος, πόλις Ἀκαρνανίας, ἣν Ὅμηρος ἀκτήν φησιν ἠπείροιο, ἥτις ἐστὶν Ἀκαρνανία. Λούπερκος δὲ ταύτην Νήριτος φησίν, ἢ Νήριτον ὡς τὸ ὄρος. ὁ πολίτης Νηρίκιος καὶ Νηρικία, καὶ τὸ κτητικὸν τοῦ ὄρους Νηρίτιος.

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Text Details

Entry	#45
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 473.20
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count	33

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ὅμηρος (Homer)	—
Λούπερκος (Lupercus)	RE XIII 2,1839 Nr. 5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Νήρικος	Nerikos · place · corrected · Q16612835
Ἀκαρνανία	Acarnania · place · corrected · Q416070
Νήριτος	Neritos (mountain) · place · corrected · Q25016169
Νήριτον	Neriton (variant) · place
Νηρικίος	Nerikios (citizen, masc.) · people
Νηρικία	Nerikia (citizen, fem.) · people
Νηρίτιος	Neritios (possessive/adjectival form) · other
Nerikos in Acarnania	place · city · Acarnania · explicit · unresolved
Mount Neritos	place · mountain · Acarnania · explicit · unresolved

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Place Transfer	Lupercus says this [place] is called Nēritos or Nēriton, like (after) the mountain.
Morphological Composition	The demonym (citizen) Nērikios and Nērikia, and the possessive/adjectival of the mountain Nēritios.

Links

Place links	Nericus \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1655.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἀκτή ἡ gloss:debf8cab78f25544	headland, point Domain: WATER BODIES/COASTS	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ὄρος ὁ gloss:184051ff413f789d	mountain, mount (X ὄρος = 'Mount X') Domain: TERRAIN/LANDMASSES	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.

Herodian 1.152

char LCS 30 (18.1%) · word LCS 5 (15.6%)

Stephanos

Νήρικος, πόλις Ἀκαρνανίας, ἣν Ὅμηρος ἀκτήν φησιν ἠπείροιο, ἥτις ἐστὶν Ἀκαρνανία. Λούπερκος δὲ ταύτην Νήριτος φησίν, ἢ Νήριτον ὡς τὸ ὄρος. ὁ πολίτης Νηρίκιος καὶ Νηρικία, καὶ τὸ κτητικὸν τοῦ ὄρους Νηρίτιος.

Herodian

…τὴν οἶδε. λέγεται ἀρσενικῶς, ὡς Πολύβιος ἑβδόμῳ «οἱ δὲ τὸν Ὤρικον κατοικοῦντες, οἳ καὶ πρῶτοι κεῖνται περὶ τὴν εἰσβολὴν πρὸς τὸν Ἀδρίαν ἐκ δεξιῶν εἰσπλέοντι». Ἀσφόδικος, Ὄρικος κύριον, Σίνδικος πόλις προσεχὴς τῇ Σκυθίᾳ, Νήρικος πόλις Ἀκαρνανίας, ἣν Ὅμηρος (Od. ω 377) ἀκτήν φησι ἠπείροιο. Ὄμβρικος ἔθνος Ἰταλικόν. τὸ δὲ Θορικός οἱ πλείους ὀξύνουσιν. ἔστι δὲ δῆμος τῆς Ἀκαμαντίδος φυλῆς. Ἑκαταῖος δὲ πόλιν αὐτήν φησιν. Τὰ εἰς 'ικος' κτητικὰ ἐπιθετικὰ καὶ θηλυκὸν ἔχοντα ὀξύνετ…