Νύραξ - Stephanos Ethnika

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Νύραξ, πόλις Κελτική. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νυράκιος, ὡς παρὰ τὴν Νάρυκα Ναρύκιος.

Nýrax: a Celtic city. Hecataeus in his Europe. The ethnic is Nyrákios, just as from Náryka Narýkios.

Text Details

Entry	#82
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 479.5 · Billerbeck Ν82
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count	13
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v1 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Εὐρώπη · FGrHist 1 F 56

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Νύραξ	Nyrax · place
Νυράκιος	Nyrakios · people
Νάρυκα	Naryka · place
Ναρύκιος	Narykios · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Borrowing Non Greek	a Celtic city
Morphological Composition	the ethnic (demonym) 'Nyrakios', as with (for) Naryca 'Narykios'

Links

Place links	Nyrax
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1738.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

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Herodian 1.42

char LCS 31 (43.7%) · word LCS 5 (38.5%)

Stephanos

Νύραξ, πόλις Κελτική. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νυράκιος, ὡς παρὰ τὴν Νάρυκα Ναρύκιος.

Herodian

…ἐν τῷ τῆς Νικομηδείας κόλπῳ πλησίον αὐτῆς. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλος τόπος τῆς Ποντικῆς. Ἄταξ ποταμός, Μίμαξ ἔθνος Λιβυκόν. Φίλιστος Σικελικῶν ὀγδόῳ. Μύλαξ ἔθνος Ἠπειρωτικόν. Λυκόφρων (v. 1021) «Κρᾶθις δὲ γείτων ἠδὲ Μυλάκων ὄρος». Νύραξ πόλις Κελτική. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Ῥύνδαξ ποταμὸς μεταξὺ Φρυγίας καὶ Ἑλλησπόντου ὁ καὶ Ῥύνδακος. Κάσταξ πόλις Ἰβηρίας. Μάρμαξ ἔθνος Αἰθιοπικόν· Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Θόρναξ ὄρος τῆς Λακωνικῆς. Νικόλαος δʹ. Ἄμβραξ καὶ Ἄμπραξ ὁ παῖς Θεσπρωτοῦ τοῦ Λυκάονος. Τάμβρ…