Οἰσύμη - Stephanos Ethnika

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

Oisymē: a city of Macedonia. Thucydides. It is what is now Emathia. The ethnic is Oisymaios. Homer called it Aisymē.

Text Details

Entry	#34
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 487.7 · Billerbeck Ο34
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	16
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v1 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

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

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Οἰσύμη	Oisymē (Oisymē) · place
Μακεδονία	Macedonia · place
Ἠμαθία	Emathia · place
Οἰσυμαῖος	Oisumaian (demonym) · people
Οἰσύμη	Oisymē (acc.) · place

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
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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…