Ξύλος - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #13
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 481.16 | Billerbeck: Ξ13
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count: 20
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus) FGrHist 1 F 253 [Ἀσίᾳ]
Entities: Ξύλος (Xylos) [place], Καρία (Caria) [place], Ἀσία (Asia) [place], Ξύλιος (Xylian (ethnic)) [people], Ξυλεὺς (Xyleus (ethnic)) [people]
Etymologies: Morphological Composition: The ethnic (demonym) is ‘Xylios’ or ‘Xyleus’, because of the local idiom/dialect of the place; for they render or use the ending (contrast) -εις as -ευς.
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Ξύλος, πόλις Καρίας. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ξύλιος ἢ Ξυλεύς, διὰ τὸ ἰδίωμα τοῦ τόπου· χαίρουσι γὰρ τοῖς εἰς « ευς ».

Xylos: a city of Caria. Hecataeus, in his *Asia*. The ethnic (gentilic) is *Xylios* or *Xyleus*, owing to the local linguistic peculiarity; for they are fond of (forming ethnics) in -eus.

Herodian overlaps

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Herodian 1.154

char LCS 28 (31.1%) · word LCS 5 (25.0%)

Stephanos

Ξύλος, πόλις Καρίας. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ξύλιος ἢ Ξυλεύς, διὰ τὸ ἰδίωμα τοῦ τόπου· χαίρουσι γὰρ τοῖς εἰς « ευς ».

Herodian

…ν τὴν πόλιν ὠνόμασεν. δύο δὲ Παρμενίσκος ἱστορεῖ, τὸν μὲν Μαλιακὸν ὑπὸ Ἀχιλλεῖ, τὸν δὲ ὑπὸ Πρωτεσιλάῳ. Ἀπολλόδωρος δὲ ἀρσενικῶς λέγεσθαι τὴν πόλιν φησίν. πάλος, σάλος, λάλος, φάλος, μύλος, τύλος, Πύλος πόλις ἐν Μεσσήνῃ. Ξύλος πόλις Καρίας. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. φίλος, κτίλος, ὃ κατ´ ἀφαίρεσιν ἐκ τοῦ ἱκτίλος γέγονεν. πόλος, στόλος, ψόλος, ὅλος, Φόλος ὁ Κένταυρος, χόλος, δόλος, κόλος, βόλος, μόλος καὶ Μόλος «Μηριόνη Μόλου υἱέ» (Ν 249) σόλος καὶ Σόλοι Κιλικίας πόλις. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐ…