Νοστία

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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Νοστία, κώμη Ἀρκαδίας. Θεόπομπος τριακοστῷ δευτέρῳ Φιλιππικῶν. Ἔφορος τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νεστάνιος ἔφη, ὥστε κατ´ αὐτὸν Νεστανίαν λέγεσθαι· ἡ αὐτὴ γὰρ τῇ προτέρᾳ, ὡς δῆλον ἐξ ἄλλων.

Nostia: a village of Arcadia. Theopompos, book 32 of the Philippika. Ephoros said that the ethnic is Nestanios, so that according to him it is called Nestania; for it is the same as the preceding entry, as is clear from other evidence.

Text Details

Entry#74
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 478.7 · Billerbeck Ν74
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count25
AI translationlegacy_scholarly v1 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Θεόπομπος (Theopompus)Φιλιππικῶν · FGrHist 115 F 175
Ἔφορος (Ephorus)FGrHist 70 F 234
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΝοστίαNostia · place
ἈρκαδίαArcadia · place
ΝεστάνιοςNestanios · people
ΝεστανίαNestania · place
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Morphological CompositionEphorus said the ethnicon is 'Νεστάνιος' (Nestanios), so that, according to him, it is called 'Νεστανία' (Nestania).
Unclear MetalinguisticFor it is the same as the earlier one, as is clear from others.

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Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.325
char LCS 38 (27.1%) · word LCS 4 (15.4%)
Stephanos
Νοστία, κώμη Ἀρκαδίας. Θεόπομπος τριακοστῷ δευτέρῳ Φιλιππικῶν. Ἔφορος τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νεστάνιος ἔφη, ὥστε κατ´ αὐτὸν Νεστανίαν λέγεσθαι· ἡ αὐτὴ γὰρ τῇ προτέρᾳ, ὡς δῆλον ἐξ ἄλλων.
Herodian
εἰ μὴ εἴη ἐκ συναιρέσεως, Σάμη νῆσος, καλάμη καὶ Καλάμαι πόλις Πελοποννήσου. Παυσανίας τετάρτῳ (c. 31, 3). παλάμη, Ζαδράμη βασίλειον τῶν Κυναιδοκολπιτῶν. θαλάμη, Θαλάμαι πόλις τῆς Μεσσηνίας. Θεόπομπος τριακοστῷ δευτέρῳ Φιλιππικῶν. Κοροκονδάμη πλησίον Σινώπης. Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἑνδεκάτῳ γεωγραφουμένων. Ὀργάμη πόλις ἐν τῷ Ἴστρῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. τὸ δὲ σπιθαμή ὀξύνεται καὶ τὸ Ἱεραμαί πόλις Καρίας. τὸ δὲ σησαμῆ περισπᾶται ὡς ἐκ συναιρέσεως. * Τὰ εἰς 'μη' …

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