Ὀλιζών - Stephanos Ethnika

Ὀλιζών OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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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.

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Text Details

Entry	#43
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 489.14
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	50

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Εὐρώπῃ · FGrHist 1 F 135
Δημοσθένης (Demosthenes)	Κτίσεσι · FGrHist 699 F 10 = fr. 12 Powell

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ὀλιζών	Olizon · place · corrected · Q16613514
Θετταλία	Thessaly · place · corrected · Q1247568
Πιτύεια	Pityeia · place
Θεσσαλοί	Thessalians · people
Ὀλιζώνιος	Olizonian (ethnic) · other
Ὀλιζών	place · explicit · wikidata: Q16613514 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	It was named from its being small. For the Thessalians, as Demosthenes records in Ktiseis, call the small 'olizon'.

Links

Place links	Olizon \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1957.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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
Formula	Χ (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:c22408ee90fd1a1e	*Translate as "X, in book Y of his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (definite ARTICLE + ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:bcd70ae781e7b205	Translate as "just as 'Y' is from the name X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 1.28

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…