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Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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Ξυνία, Θετταλίας πόλις. Πολύβιος ἐνάτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ξυνιεύς ὡς Ἰλιεύς. καὶ Ξυνιὰς λίμνη, ἣν Βοιβιάδα φασίν.

Xynia: a city of Thessaly. Polybius, Book 9. The ethnic is Xynieus, as Ilieus. And there is also Lake Xynias, which they say is Boibias.

Text Details

Entry#14
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 481.19 · Billerbeck Ξ14
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count16
AI translationlegacy_scholarly v1 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Πολύβιος (Polybius)(9,45,3)
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΞυνίαXynia · place
ΘετταλίαThessaly · place
ΞυνιεύςXynieus (inhabitant of Xynia) · people
ἸλιεύςIlian (inhabitant of Ilium/Troy) · people
ΞυνιάςXynias (lake) · place
ΒοιβιάδαBoibiada (alternative name) · place
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Morphological Compositionthe ethnic (demonym) Ξυνιεύς, formed like Ἰλιεύς.
Unclear Metalinguisticand the lake Xynias, which they call Boibiada.

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Herodian overlaps

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