Ὀλιζών - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #43
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 489.14 | Billerbeck: Ο43
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count: 50
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus) FGrHist 1 F 135 [Εὐρώπῃ], Δημοσθένης (Demosthenes) FGrHist 699 F 10 = fr. 12 Powell [Κτίσεσι]
Entities: Ὀλιζών (Olizon) [place], Θετταλία (Thessaly) [place], Πιτύεια (Pityeia) [place], Θεσσαλοί (Thessalians) [people], Ὀλιζώνιος (Olizonian (ethnic)) [other]
Etymologies: Morphological Composition: It was named from its being small. For the Thessalians, as Demosthenes records in Ktiseis, call the small 'olizon'.
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Ὀλιζών, πόλις Θετταλίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. κλίνεται δὲ διὰ τοῦ « ω » καὶ ὀξύνεται “καὶ Πιτύειαν ἔχον καὶ Ὀλιζῶνα τρηχεῖαν”. ὀξύνεται δὲ πρὸς ἀντιδιαστολὴν τοῦ “λαοὶ δ´ ὑπ´ ὀλίζονες ἦσαν”. ὠνομάσθη δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ μικρὰ εἶναι. Θεσσαλοὶ γάρ, ὡς ἱστορεῖ Δημοσθένης ἐν κτίσεσι, τὸ μικρὸν ὄλιζον καλοῦσι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὀλιζώνιος.

Olizōn: a city of Thessaly. Hecataeus in his *Europa* (FGrHist 1 F 135). It is declined with omega and accented on the final syllable: “and holding Pityeia and rugged Olizōn” (Il. 2.717). It is so accented to distinguish it from “but the peoples were fewer” (Il. 19.519). It was named from being small; for the Thessalians, as Demosthenes relates in the *Ktiseis* (FGrHist 699 F 10 = fr. 12 Powell), call what is small *olizon*. The ethnic is Olizōnios.

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char LCS 88 (35.5%) · word LCS 18 (37.5%)

Stephanos

Ὀλιζών, πόλις Θετταλίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. κλίνεται δὲ διὰ τοῦ « ω » καὶ ὀξύνεται “καὶ Πιτύειαν ἔχον καὶ Ὀλιζῶνα τρηχεῖαν”. ὀξύνεται δὲ πρὸς ἀντιδιαστολὴν τοῦ “λαοὶ δ´ ὑπ´ ὀλίζονες ἦσαν”. ὠνομάσθη δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ μικρὰ εἶναι. Θεσσαλοὶ γάρ, ὡς ἱστορεῖ Δημοσθένης ἐν κτίσεσι, τὸ μικρὸν ὄλιζον καλοῦσι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὀλιζώνιος.

Herodian

…ς τὸ 'ι' τραπέντος. ὀλίζων· τὸ δὲ Ὀλιζών πόλις Θετταλίας—Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ «καὶ Πιτύειαν ἔχον καὶ Ὀλιζῶνα τρηχεῖαν» (Il. Β 717)—κλίνεται διὰ τοῦ 'ω' καὶ ὀξύνεται πρὸς ἀντιδιαστολὴν τοῦ «λαοὶ δ´ ὑπ´ ὀλίζονες ἦσαν» (Σ 519). ὠνομάσθη δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ μικρὰ εἶναι. Θεσσαλοὶ γάρ, ὡς ἱστορεῖ Δημοσθένης ἐν κτίσεσι, τὸ μικρὸν ὄλιζον καλοῦσι. τὸ δὲ Ἀμαζών ἔχει μακρὸν τὸ 'α'· ἔστι δὲ ἔθνος γυναικεῖον πρὸς τῷ Θερμώδοντι, ὡς Ἔφορος. τινὲς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐστερῆσθαι μαζῶν· ἀπίθανος δὲ ἡ τοιαύτη ἐτυμολογία· Θεμισταγόρας δὲ καὶ ἐν τῇ χρυσῇ βίβλῳ φησίν «ὅτι κατὰ τὴν Ἀλόπην τὴ…