Οἰδάντιον - Stephanos Ethnika

Οἰδάντιον OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Entry #19
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 485.1 | Billerbeck: Ο19
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count: 15
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Θεόπομπος (Theopompus) FGrHist 115 F 182 [Φιλιππικῶν], Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus) FGrHist 1 F 98
Entities: Οἰδάντιον (Oidantion) [place], Ἰλλυριοί (Illyrians) [people], Οἴδαντες (Oidantes) [people], Οἰδαντικὴ γῆ (Oidantic land) [place]
Etymologies: Unclear Metalinguistic: 'Oidantion' — a city of the Illyrians.; Morphological Composition: The ethnicon (demonym) 'Oidantes', as Hecataeus says.; Morphological Composition: and 'Oidantic land' (the adjectival form denoting the territory).
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Οἰδάντιον, πόλις Ἰλλυριῶν. Θεόπομπος Φιλιππικῶν τριακοστῷ ὀγδόῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Οἴδαντες, ὥς φησιν Ἑκαταῖος. καὶ Οἰδαντικὴ γῆ.

Oïdantion: a city of the Illyrians. Theopompos, in book 38 of the *Philippika*. The ethnicon is Oïdantes, as Hekataios says. Also: Oïdantike land/territory.

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