Νίβις - Stephanos Ethnika

Νίβις OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Entry #50
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 474.13 | Billerbeck: Ν50
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count: 11
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Φλέγων (Phlegon) FGrHist 257 F 10 [᾿Ολυμπιάδι]
Entities: Νίβις (Nibis (city in Egypt)) [place], Αἴγυπτος (Egypt) [place], Νιβίτης (inhabitant of Nibis (demonym)) [people], Μεμφίτης (inhabitant of Memphis; Memphite (demonym)) [people]
Etymologies: Morphological Composition: The ethnicon/demonym 'Νιβίτης' (for Nibis), like 'Μεμφίτης' (Memphite).
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Νίβις, πόλις Αἰγύπτου. Φλέγων ρμʹ ὀλυμπιάδι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νιβίτης ὡς Μεμφίτης.

Nibis: a city of Egypt. (So) Phlegon, in the 140th Olympiad. The ethnic (gentilic) is Nibites, as (one says) Memphites.

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Herodian 1.86

char LCS 36 (59.0%) · word LCS 6 (54.5%)

Stephanos

Νίβις, πόλις Αἰγύπτου. Φλέγων ρμʹ ὀλυμπιάδι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νιβίτης ὡς Μεμφίτης.

Herodian

…βαρύνεται· καὶ ὀξύνεται μὲν τὰ παρώνυμα οἷον λαβίς παρὰ τὸ λαβή καὶ ἐπιθετικὰ οἷον Λεσβίς καὶ ἐκτείνοντα τὸ 'ι' οἷον βαλβίς· τὰ δὲ μὴ οὕτως ἔχοντα βαρύνεται, ἶβις, Ἄρβις ποταμὸς Ἰνδικῆς καὶ ἔθνος· λέγεται δὲ καὶ Ἄραβις. Νίβις πόλις Αἰγύπτου, Φλέγων ρμʹ Ὀλυμπιάδι, Τάβις πόλις Ἀραβίας. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Αἰγύπτου. Νάρβις Ἰλλυρίας πόλις. Ζόμβις πόλις τῆς Μηδίας. Χέμβις νῆσος ἐν Βουτοῖ, ὡς Ἑκαταῖος ἐν περιηγήσει Αἰγύπτου «ἐν Βουτοῖ περὶ τὸ ἱερὸν τῆς Λητοῦς ἐστι νῆσος Χέμβις ὄνομα, ἱρ…