Ὄαξος - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #3
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 482.10 | Billerbeck: Ο3
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count: 39
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ξενίων (Xenion) FGrHist 460 F 10
Entities: Ὄαξος (Oaxus) [place], Κρήτη (Crete) [place], Ἐλευθέρνη (Eleutherna) [place], Ὄαξος (Oaxus) [place], Ἀκακαλλίς (Akakallis) [person], Μίνως (Minos) [person], Ὀάξιος (Oaxios (Oaxian)) [person]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: From Oaxus — named after Oaxus, the (female) daughter of Akakallidos, the daughter of Minos.; Morphological Composition: Some (say) because the place is steep and rocky; for they call such places 'áxous' (ἄξους), just as we call them 'agmoi' (ἀγμούς).
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Ὄαξος, πόλις Κρήτης, Ἐλευθέρνης οὐ πόρρω, καθὰ Ξενίων, ἀπὸ Ὀάξου τοῦ Ἀκακαλλίδος τῆς θυγατρὸς τοῦ Μίνω. τινὲς δὲ διὰ τὸ καταγῆναι τὸν τόπον καὶ κρημνώδη ὑπάρχειν· καλοῦσι γὰρ τοὺς τοιούτους τόπους ἄξους, καθάπερ καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀγμούς. ὁ πολίτης Ὀάξιος.

Oaxos: a city of Crete, not far from Eleutherna, as Xenion [says], [so called] from Oaxos, son of Akakallis, the daughter of Minos. Others, however, [derive the name] from the fact that the place is broken/cleft and steep; for they call such places axoi, just as we [call them] agmoi (“clefts”). The citizen is called an Oaxios.

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Herodian 1.186

char LCS 186 (93.0%) · word LCS 36 (92.3%)

Stephanos

Ὄαξος, πόλις Κρήτης, Ἐλευθέρνης οὐ πόρρω, καθὰ Ξενίων, ἀπὸ Ὀάξου τοῦ Ἀκακαλλίδος τῆς θυγατρὸς τοῦ Μίνω. τινὲς δὲ διὰ τὸ καταγῆναι τὸν τόπον καὶ κρημνώδη ὑπάρχειν· καλοῦσι γὰρ τοὺς τοιούτους τόπους ἄξους, καθάπερ καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀγμούς. ὁ πολίτης Ὀάξιος.

Herodian

…ς ὡς Ἡρόδοτος ἐν τετάρτῃ (c. 154), Νάξος νῆσος τῶν Κυκλάδων ἀπὸ τοῦ Νάξου Καρῶν ἡγεμόνος, ἄλλοι δὲ ἀπὸ Νάξου τοῦ Ἐνδυμίωνος. Εὐφορίων δὲ παρὰ τὸ νάξαι, ὅ φασι θῦσαί τινες. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Σικελίας. καὶ ἄλλοι τόποι Νάξοι. Ὄαξος πόλις Κρήτης Ἐλευθέρνης οὐ πόρρω, καθὰ Ξενίων ἀπὸ Ὀάξου τοῦ Ἀκακαλλίδος τῆς θυγατρὸς τοῦ Μίνω. τινὲς δὲ διὰ τὸ καταγῆναι τὸν τόπον καὶ κρημνώδη ὑπάρχειν. καλοῦσι γὰρ τοὺς τοιούτους τόπους ἄξους, καθάπερ καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀγμούς. Χάραξος ἀπὸ τοῦ χαράξω, ἀφ´ οὗ Χαράξης. Ὀλόφυξος πόλις ἐν Θρᾴκῃ περὶ τὸν Ἄθω. Ἴξος λιμὴν τῆς Ῥόδου. τὸ μέντοι ἰξός τὸ προσηγορικὸν ὀξύνεται, καὶ τὸ λοξός, φοξός ὡς ἐπίθετα καὶ τὸ κοραξός ὡς ἐπίθετον ὀξύνεται, βαρύνεται…