Ὀγχηστός - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #8
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 483.3 | Billerbeck: Ο8
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count: 56
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ὅμηρος (Homer) (Β 506) [Iliad], Ἡσίοδος (Hesiod) fr. 219 Merkelbach/West = fr. 142 Most, Παυσανίας (Pausanias) θ (9,26,5; 37,1) [Description of Greece], Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Ῥόδιος (Apollonius Rhodius) (3,1242) [Argonautica]
Entities: Ὀγχηστός (Onchestus (Onchestos)) [place], Ποσειδών (Poseidon) [deity], Ἁλιάρτιοι (Haliartians) [people], Βοιωτία (Boeotia) [place], Ἀκραιφία (Akraiphia) [place], Θεσσαλία (Thessaly) [place]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: that it was founded by Onchestus the Boeotian, as Hesiod says
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Ὀγχηστός, ἄλσος. Ὅμηρος “Ὀγχηστόν θ´ ἱερόν, Ποσιδήιον ἀγλαὸν ἄλσος”. κεῖται δὲ ἐν τῇ Ἁλιαρτίων χώρᾳ, ἱδρυθὲν δὲ ὑπὸ Ὀγχηστοῦ τοῦ Βοιωτοῦ, ὥς φησιν Ἡσίοδος. ἔστι καὶ πόλις [Βοιωτίας], ὡς Παυσανίας ἐνάτῳ. Ἀπολλώνιος δὲ ὁ Ῥόδιος .... πόλιν φησὶ μεγάλην τὸν Ὀγχηστόν μεταξὺ Ἁλιαρτίων καὶ Ἀκραιφίων. ἔστι καὶ ποταμὸς ἐν Θεσσαλίᾳ. ὁ πολίτης Ὀγχήστιος. Παυσανίας ἐνάτῳ.

Onchestos: a sacred grove. Homer (Iliad 2.506): “and Onchestos the holy, Poseidon’s glorious grove.” It lies in the territory of the Haliartians; and it is said to have been founded by Onchestos the Boeotian, as Hesiod states. There is also a city in Boeotia, as Pausanias says. Apollonius of Rhodes <***> says that Onchestos is a great city, between Haliartus and Akraiphiai. There is also a river in Thessaly. The ethnic is Onchestios. Pausanias.

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char LCS 87 (30.4%) · word LCS 15 (27.8%)

Stephanos

Ὀγχηστός, ἄλσος. Ὅμηρος “Ὀγχηστόν θ´ ἱερόν, Ποσιδήιον ἀγλαὸν ἄλσος”. κεῖται δὲ ἐν τῇ Ἁλιαρτίων χώρᾳ, ἱδρυθὲν δὲ ὑπὸ Ὀγχηστοῦ τοῦ Βοιωτοῦ, ὥς φησιν Ἡσίοδος. ἔστι καὶ πόλις [Βοιωτίας], ὡς Παυσανίας ἐνάτῳ. Ἀπολλώνιος δὲ ὁ Ῥόδιος .... πόλιν φησὶ μεγάλην τὸν Ὀγχηστόν μεταξὺ Ἁλιαρτίων καὶ Ἀκραιφίων. ἔστι καὶ ποταμὸς ἐν Θεσσαλίᾳ. ὁ πολίτης Ὀγχήστιος. Παυσανίας ἐνάτῳ.

Herodian

…γοστός ἡ ἀγκάλη, ὀϊστός. * Τὰ εἰς 'στος' τῷ 'η' παραληγόμενα κύρια ὀξύνεται, Ὀγχηστός ἄλσος. Ὅμηρος «Ὀγχηστόν θ´ ἱερόν, Ποσιδήϊον ἀγλαὸν ἄλσος» (Β 506). —ἱδρυνθὲν ὑπὸ Ὀγχηστοῦ τοῦ Βοιωτοῦ, ὥς φησιν Ἡσίοδος. ἔστι καὶ πόλις, ὡς Παυσανίας ἐνάτῳ ( 26, 6). Ἀπολλώνιος δὲ ὁ Ῥόδιος.... πόλιν φησὶ μεγάλην τὸν Ὀγχηστὸν μεταξὺ Ἁλιαρτίων καὶ Ἀκραιφνίων. Τυφρηστός πόλις τῆς Τραχῖνος ὀνομασθεῖσα ἀπὸ τῆς τέφρας Ἡρακλέους ἢ ἀπὸ Τυφρηστοῦ υἱοῦ Σπερχειοῦ. Τὰ εἰς 'στος' ἐπιθετικὰ ἁπλᾶ ῥηματικὰ ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβὰς ὀξύνεται,