Ξήρα

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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All Letters / Ξ Xi / Ξήρα
Ξήρα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
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Ξήρα, πόλις περὶ τὰς Ἡρακλείους στήλας. Θεόπομπος τεσσαρακοστῷ τρίτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ξηραῖος, ὡς Θήρα Θηραῖος.

Xēra: a city in the region of the Pillars of Heracles. Theopompos, book 43. The ethnic is Xēraios, as Thēra → Thēraios.

Text Details

Entry#6
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 481.1 · Billerbeck Ξ6
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count14
AI translationlegacy_scholarly v1 · gpt-5.2

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AuthorWork / Citation
Θεόπομπος (Theopompus)FGrHist 115 F 199
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΞήραXera (place name) · place
ΞηραῖοςXeraean (ethnic name) · people
ΘήραThera (Santorini) · place
ΘηραῖοςTheraean (ethnic name) · people
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Morphological CompositionThe ethnic/demonym is 'Ξηραῖος', as 'Θήρα' has the demonym 'Θηραῖος'.

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