Οἰσύμη - Stephanos Ethnika

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Οἰσύμη, πόλις Μακεδονίας. Θουκυδίδης τετάρτῃ. ἡ νῦν Ἠμαθία· τὸ ἐθνικὸν Οἰσυμαῖος. ταύτην Αἰσύμην Ὅμηρος ἔφη.

Oisyme: a city in Macedonia. Thucydides, book 4. It is now Emathia; the ethnonym is 'Oisymaios'. Homer called it Aisyme.

AI translation — gpt-5.6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#34
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 487.7
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	16
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Θουκυδίδης (Thucydides)	(4,107,3)
Ὅμηρος (Homer)	(Θ 304)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Οἰσύμη	Oisymē (Oisymē) · place · corrected · Q7078709
Μακεδονία	Macedonia · place · corrected · Q81734
Ἠμαθία	Emathia · place
Οἰσυμαῖος	Oisumaian (demonym) · people
Οἰσύμη	Oisymē (acc.) · place · corrected · Q7078709
Oisyme in Macedonia	place · city · Macedonia (later Emathia) · explicit · unresolved

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	Homer called this (place) 'Aisymē'.
Unclear Metalinguistic	(It is) now Emathia.
Unclear Metalinguistic	The ethnic (demonym) is 'Oisumaios'.

Links

Place links	Oesyme \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1918.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.326

char LCS 38 (43.2%) · word LCS 5 (33.3%)

Stephanos

Οἰσύμη, πόλις Μακεδονίας. Θουκυδίδης τετάρτῃ. ἡ νῦν Ἠμαθία· τὸ ἐθνικὸν Οἰσυμαῖος. ταύτην Αἰσύμην Ὅμηρος ἔφη.

Herodian

… ἀπέχουσα σταδίους ρκʹ ἐσχάτη, κεῖται πρὸς δύσιν Δῦμαι». Δρύμη πόλις Λιβύης. Στράβων ιζʹ. σεσημείωται τὸ τιμή προσηγορικὸν ὀξυνόμενον. Τίμη δὲ τὸ κύριον βαρύνεται. * Τὰ εἰς 'μη' ὑπερδισύλλαβα 'υ' παραληγόμενα βαρύνεται, Οἰσύμη πόλις Μακεδονίας. Θουκυδίδης τετάρτῃ (c. 107). ταύτην Αἰσύμην Ὅμηρος (Il. Θ 304) ἔφη «τόν ῥ´ ἐξ Αἰσύμηθεν ὀπυιομένη τέκε μήτηρ». Ἠδύμη πόλις Καρίας. Ἰδύμη πόλις Καρίας ἡ καὶ Ἴδυμα. Διδύμη μία τῶν Αἰόλου νήσων ἀπὸ τοῦ σχήματος ὀνομασθεῖσα. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Λί…