Οἰνοῦσσαι - Stephanos Ethnika

Οἰνοῦσσαι OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

island

Οἰνοῦσσαι, νῆσοι τῇ Χίῳ προσεχεῖς. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Οἰνουσσαῖος καὶ Οἰνούσσιος.

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Text Details

Entry	#29
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 486.11 · Billerbeck Ο29
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	12
Translation status	The substantive difference is grammatical number: Billerbeck reads singular (νῆσος ... προσεχής), while Meineke reads plural (νῆσοι ... προσεχεῖς). Other differences are punctuation and diacritic/orthographic variants that are mechanical.

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Εὐρώπη · FGrHist 1 F 142

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Οἰνοῦσσαι	Oinousses (the islands Oinoussae) · place
Χίος	Chios · place
Εὐρώπη	Europe · place
Οἰνουσσαῖος	Oinoussaean (demonym) · people
Οἰνούσσιος	Oinoussius / Oinoussian (variant demonym) · people

Links

Place links	Oinousses \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1908.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.270

char LCS 42 (56.0%) · word LCS 7 (58.3%)

Stephanos

Οἰνοῦσσαι, νῆσοι τῇ Χίῳ προσεχεῖς. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Οἰνουσσαῖος καὶ Οἰνούσσιος.

Herodian

…νικοῦσσα δύο νῆσοι ἐν τῷ Λιβυκῷ κόλπῳ πρὸς τῇ Καρχηδόνι, ὡς Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Λιβύης. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Φοινίκων ἐν Συρίᾳ Φοινικοῦσσαι, ὡς αὐτὸς ἐν Ἀσίᾳ. Φυκοῦσσαι νῆσοι Λιβύης· ὀνομάζονται δὲ διὰ τὸ φύκων εἶναι πλήρεις. Οἰνοῦσσαι νῆσοι τῇ Χίῳ προσεχεῖς. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Ἐλαιοῦσσα νῆσος Κιλικίας κατὰ τὴν ἤπειρον πρὸς τῇ Κωρύκῳ. εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ ἄλλαι νῆσοι ἑπτά. Σχινοῦσσα Φωκικὴ νῆσος. Δρυμοῦσσα νῆσος Ἰωνίας. Θουκυδίδης ὀγδόῃ (c. 31). Φαρμακοῦσσαι δύο νῆσοι πλησίον Σαλαμῖνος. καὶ ἄλλη ὑπὲρ …