Νῶλα - Stephanos Ethnika

Νῶλα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Νῶλα, πόλις Αὐσόνων. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Νώλην δὲ αὐτὴν Πολύβιός φησι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νώλιος. Πολύβιος δὲ Νωλανοὺς αὐτούς φησιν.

Translation pending

Text Details

Entry	#84
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 479.15 · Billerbeck Ν84
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count	18

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Εὐρώπῃ · FGrHist 1 F 61
Πολύβιος (Polybius)	(2,17,1); (3,91,5)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Νῶλα	Nola · place · corrected · Q72288
Αὔσονες	Ausones (Ausonians) · people
Νῶλα	Nola (acc.) · place · corrected · Q72288
Νώλιος	Nolian (ethnic name) · people
Νωλανοί	Nolanians (inhabitants of Nola) · people
Νῶλα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q72288 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	a city of the Ausones (i.e. the town belongs to / is of the Ausonian people).
Unclear Metalinguistic	Hecataeus (places/assigns it) to Europe.
Unclear Metalinguistic	Polybius calls it 'Νώλην' (a variant form of the place-name).
Unclear Metalinguistic	the ethnicon (demonym) is 'Νώλιος'.
Unclear Metalinguistic	Polybius (3.91.5) calls them 'Νωλανοὺς' (Nolanōs — another ethnicon).

Links

Place links	Nola \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1747.jpg
Review	Open review page

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