Νίσυρος - Stephanos Ethnika

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Νίσυρος, νῆσος μία τῶν Κυκλάδων. “Οἳ δ´ ἄρα Νίσυρόν τ´ εἶχον”. Πολυβώτης γὰρ εἷς τῶν Γιγάντων ὑπὸ Διὸς βληθεὶς ἐνήχετο, Ποσειδῶν δὲ ἐπ´ αὐτὸν ἀφεὶς τὴν τρίαιναν τοῦ μὲν ἥμαρτε· γέγονε γὰρ νῆσος τὸ βληθὲν Νίσυρος. ἐκαλεῖτο καὶ Πορφυρίς ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν αὐτῇ πορφυρέων. ὁ οἰκήτωρ Νισύριος. καὶ Νισυριακός.

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Text Details

Entry	#66
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 477.7 · Billerbeck Ν66
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count	50

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Νίσυρος	Nisyros · place · corrected · Q38282168
Κυκλάδες	the Cyclades · place · corrected · Q171132
Πολυβώτης	Polybotēs (Polybotes) · person
Ζεύς	Zeus · deity · corrected · Q34201
Ποσειδῶν	Poseidon · deity · corrected · Q41127
Πορφυρίς	Porphyris · place
Νισύριος	Nisyrios (inhabitant of Nisyros) · people
Νισυριακός	Nisyriac / Nisyrian (adjective/demonym) · other
Νίσυρος	place · explicit · wikidata: Q38282168 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Folk Etymology Narrative	Polybotes, one of the Giants, being struck by Zeus, lay there; Poseidon, having hurled his trident at him, missed; for the thing struck became the island Nisyros.
Morphological Composition	It was also called Porphyris from the purple (shells/dye) found in it.

Links

Place links	Nisyros palaiokastro \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1722.jpg
Review	Open review page

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.205

char LCS 33 (14.0%) · word LCS 9 (18.4%)

Stephanos

Νίσυρος, νῆσος μία τῶν Κυκλάδων. “Οἳ δ´ ἄρα Νίσυρόν τ´ εἶχον”. Πολυβώτης γὰρ εἷς τῶν Γιγάντων ὑπὸ Διὸς βληθεὶς ἐνήχετο, Ποσειδῶν δὲ ἐπ´ αὐτὸν ἀφεὶς τὴν τρίαιναν τοῦ μὲν ἥμαρτε· γέγονε γὰρ νῆσος τὸ βληθὲν Νίσυρος. ἐκαλεῖτο καὶ Πορφυρίς ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν αὐτῇ πορφυρέων. ὁ οἰκήτωρ Νισύριος…

Herodian

… Καλαβρός ὁ οἰκήτωρ τῆς Καλαβρίας ὡς τῆς Κανταβρίας Κανταβρός. τὸ δὲ Ἴνσοβρος ἔθνος Ἰταλικὸν Πολύβιος ιϛʹ βαρύνεται. Τὰ εἰς 'σος' διβράχεα βαρύνεται, Θάσος νῆσος πρὸς τῇ Θρᾴκῃ ἀπὸ Θάσου. Κάσος Κλεόχου υἱὸς καὶ ἀπ´ αὐτοῦ μία τῶν Κυκλάδων «οἱ δ´ ἄρα Νίσυρόν τ´ εἶχον Κράπαθόν τε Κάσον τε» (Β 676). ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα Περσίδος πόλις. Ἄσος πολίχνιον Κρήτης. νόσος, δρόσος, πίσος τὸ ὄσπριον, μέσος, ἴσος, πόσος, ὅσος, τόσος.