Νίκαια - Stephanos Ethnika

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Νίκαια, πόλις Βιθυνίας, Βοττιαίων ἄποικος. ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ πρότερον Ἀγκώρη εἶτα Ἀντιγόνεια· ὕστερον δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς Λυσιμάχου γυναικὸς Νίκαια μετεκλήθη. δευτέρα τῶν Ἐπικνημιδίων Λοκρῶν. τρίτη ἐν Ἰλλυρίδι. τετάρτη ἐν Ἰνδοῖς. πέμπτη ἐν Κύρνῳ τῇ νήσῳ. ἕκτη ἐν Λεύκτροις τῆς Βοιωτίας. ἑβδόμη Κελτικῆς, Μασσαλιωτῶν ἄποικος. ὀγδόη Θρᾴκης. εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ ἄλλαι. ἢ παρὰ Θερμοπύλας καὶ Θρᾴκην. λέγεται δὲ προπαροξυτόνως. εἰ δ´ ἔστι νικαῖος, τὸ θηλυκὸν νικαία. ὁ πολίτης Νικαιεύς καὶ Νικαεύς διχῶς. ἐξ αὐτῆς Ἰσίγονος καὶ Ἀσκληπιάδης καὶ Παρθένιος καὶ Ἀπολλωνίδης καὶ Ἐπιθέρσης γραμματικὸς γράψας περὶ λέξεων ἀττικῶν καὶ κωμικῶν καὶ τραγικῶν.

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Text Details

Entry	#52
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 474.17 · Billerbeck Ν52
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count	90
Translation status	Most differences are mechanical: punctuation, capitalization/orthography, editorial bracketing, and Greek-numeral signs rendered as spelled-out ordinals in Meineke. One substantive lexical difference occurs in the list of authors: Billerbeck reads Ἀπολλόδωρος where Meineke reads Ἀπολλωνίδης.

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἰσίγονος (Isigonus)	περὶ λέξεων Ἀττικῶν καὶ κωμικῶν καὶ τραγικῶν
Ἀσκληπιάδης (Asclepiades)	περὶ λέξεων Ἀττικῶν καὶ κωμικῶν καὶ τραγικῶν
Παρθένιος (Parthenios)	περὶ λέξεων Ἀττικῶν καὶ κωμικῶν καὶ τραγικῶν
Ἀπολλόδωρος (Apollodorus)	περὶ λέξεων Ἀττικῶν καὶ κωμικῶν καὶ τραγικῶν
Ἐπιθέρσης (Epitheres (grammaticus))	περὶ λέξεων Ἀττικῶν καὶ κωμικῶν καὶ τραγικῶν

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Νίκαια	Nicaea · place
Βιθυνία	Bithynia · place
Βοττιαῖοι	Bottiaeans · people
Ἀγκώρη	Agkōrē (earlier name of the city) · place
Ἀντιγόνεια	Antigoneia · place
Λυσίμαχος	Lysimachus · person
Ἐπικνημίδαι	Epiknemidians (a group of Locrians) · people
Λοκροί	Locrians · people
Ἰλλυρία	Illyria · place
Ἰνδοί	Indians / India · people
Κύρνος	Kyrnos (the island) · place
Λεύκτρα	Leuctra · place
Βοιωτία	Boeotia · place
Κελτική	Celtica / the Celtic region · place
Μασσαλιῶται	Massaliotes (inhabitants of Massalia) · people
Θρᾴκη	Thrace · place
Θερμοπύλαι	Thermopylae · place
Νικαῖος	Nikaeus (demonym) · people
Νικαιεύς	Nikaeus (citizen) · people
Νικαεύς	Nikaeus (alternate spelling) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	It was formerly called Ankōrē, then Antigoneia.
Eponym Person	Later it was renamed Nikaia after Lysimachus's wife Nikaia.
Place Transfer	A city of Bithynia, a colony of the Bottiaeans.
Place Transfer	(A Nikaia) in Celtica, a colony of the Massaliots.
Morphological Composition	It is said with the proparoxytone accent: if the masculine is Nikaîos, the feminine is Nikaia (i.e. the name is the feminine form of Nikaîos).
Morphological Composition	The citizen is called Nikaeus and Nikaeûs, i.e. two alternative demonymal forms.

Links

Place links	Nicaea \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1664.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

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char LCS 280 (55.0%) · word LCS 49 (54.4%)

Stephanos

Νίκαια, πόλις Βιθυνίας, Βοττιαίων ἄποικος. ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ πρότερον Ἀγκώρη εἶτα Ἀντιγόνεια· ὕστερον δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς Λυσιμάχου γυναικὸς Νίκαια μετεκλήθη. δευτέρα τῶν Ἐπικνημιδίων Λοκρῶν. τρίτη ἐν Ἰλλυρίδι. τετάρτη ἐν Ἰνδοῖς. πέμπτη ἐν Κύρνῳ τῇ νήσῳ. ἕκτη ἐν Λεύκτροις τῆς Βοιωτίας. ἑβδόμη Κελτικῆς, Μασσαλιωτῶν ἄποικος. ὀγδόη Θρᾴκης. εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ ἄλλαι. ἢ παρὰ Θερμοπύλας καὶ Θρᾴκην. λέγεται δὲ προπαροξυτόνως. εἰ δ´ ἔστι νικαῖος, τὸ θηλυκὸν νικαία. ὁ πολίτης Νικαιεύς καὶ Νικαεύς διχῶς. ἐξ αὐτῆς Ἰσίγονος καὶ Ἀσκληπιάδης καὶ Παρθένιος καὶ Ἀπολλωνίδης καὶ Ἐπιθέρσης γραμμα…

Herodian

τῇ 'αι' διφθόγγῳ προπαροξύνεται, Νίκαια πόλις, νικαία δὲ τὸ θηλυκὸν τοῦ νικαῖος. ἔστι δὲ Νίκαια πόλις Βιθυνίας, Βοττιαίων ἄποικος. ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ πρότερον Ἀγκώρη, εἶτα Ἀντιγόνεια, ὕστερον δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς Λυσιμάχου γυναικὸς Νίκαια μετεκλήθη. δευτέρα τῶν Ἐπικνημιδίων Λοκρῶν. τρίτη ἐν Ἰλλυρίδι. τετάρτη ἐν Ἰνδοῖς. πέμπτη ἐν Κύρνῳ τῇ νήσῳ. ἕκτη ἐν Λεύκτροις τῆς Βοιωτίας. ἑβδόμη Κελτικῆς, Μασσαλιωτῶν ἄποικος. ὀγδόη Θρᾴκης. εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ ἄλλαι. Δίπαια πόλις Ἀρκαδίας ἡ καὶ Διπαιεύς. Δίκαια πόλις Θρᾴκης ἀπὸ Δικαίου τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος· ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα ἐν τῷ Τυρρηνικῷ κόλπῳ Ἰώνων ἄποικος. Λίλαια πόλις Φωκίδος. Λυκόφρων (v. 1073) «πάτραν Λίλαιαν κἀνεμωρείας πέδον». Κάρ…