Νοῦβαι - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #76
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 478.13 | Billerbeck: Ν76
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count: 18
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἀπολλόδωρος (Apollodorus) FGrHist 244 F 330 = fr. 27 Marcotte [Περὶ γῆς]
Entities: Νουβαῖοι (Nubians) [people], Λιβύη (Libya) [place], Νεῖλος (Nile) [place], Νουβαῖοι (Nubians) [people], Σαβαῖοι (Sabaeans) [people], Νουμῖδαι (Numidians) [people]
Etymologies: Unclear Metalinguistic: They are also called Nubai as Sabaeans; and they are the same as the Numidians.
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Νοῦβαι, ἔθνος Λιβύης παρὰ Νείλῳ. Ἀπολλόδωρος δευτέρῳ περὶ γῆς. λέγονται καὶ Νουβαῖοι ὡς Σαβαῖοι, καὶ Νουβάδες, οἱ αὐτοί.

Noubai: a people of Libya, by the Nile. Apollodorus, book 2 of On the Earth. They are also called Noubaioi, as (one says) Sabaioi; and the Numides are the same people.

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Herodian 1.60

char LCS 91 (93.8%) · word LCS 17 (94.4%)

Stephanos

Νοῦβαι, ἔθνος Λιβύης παρὰ Νείλῳ. Ἀπολλόδωρος δευτέρῳ περὶ γῆς. λέγονται καὶ Νουβαῖοι ὡς Σαβαῖοι, καὶ Νουβάδες, οἱ αὐτοί.

Herodian

…ἔχει ἡ παράδοσις. Τὰ εἰς 'βης' δισύλλαβα παραληγόμενα φωνήεντι βαρύνεται Λάβης, λέβης, Κέβης, Κάβης, Χάβης, Σίβης, Ἰνδικὸν ἔθνος, Βύβης πόλις κατὰ Πευκετίους καὶ τὸ ἐθνικὸν οἱ Βύβαι ὁμοφώνως ὡς Λοκροί καὶ Δελφοί. Νούβης ἔθνος Λιβύης παρὰ Νείλῳ. Ἀπολλόδωρος δευτέρῳ περὶ γῆς. λέγονται καὶ Νουβαῖοι ὡς Σαβαῖοι καὶ Νουβάδες οἱ αὐτοί. τὸ δὲ κιβῆς περισπᾶται ἀπὸ τοῦ κιβέας. Τὰ εἰς 'γης' δισύλλαβα βαρύνονται χωρὶς εἰ μή τι ἐκ συνθέτου καταλελειμμένον εἴη ἢ παρώνυμον ἐπιθετικόν. τότε γὰρ περισπᾶται, ὅτε συναλήλιπται ἢ βραχείᾳ παραλῆγον ἰσοσυλλάβως κλίν…