Ὀλοῦς - Stephanos Ethnika

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city

Ὀλοῦς, πόλις Κρήτης. Ξενίων ἐν τοῖς Κρητικοῖς. ὁ πολίτης Ὀλούντιος ὡς Σελινούντιος.

Oloûs: a city of Crete. So Xenion in his Cretica. The citizen is called Oloúntios, as Selinoúntios.

Text Details

Entry	#52
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 490.16 · Billerbeck Ο52
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	12
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v1 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ξενίων (Xenion)	ἐν τοῖς Κρητικοῖς · FGrHist 460 F 11

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ὀλοῦς	Olous (Cretan city) · place
Κρήτη	Crete · place

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The citizen is called 'Olountios' just as 'Selinountios' (i.e. the demonym is formed analogously to Σελινούντιος).

Links

Place links	Olous \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1962.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.243

char LCS 37 (54.4%) · word LCS 7 (58.3%)

Stephanos

Ὀλοῦς, πόλις Κρήτης. Ξενίων ἐν τοῖς Κρητικοῖς. ὁ πολίτης Ὀλούντιος ὡς Σελινούντιος.

Herodian

…πεζοῦντος παιδὸς Λυκάονος, ὡς Παυσανίας ὀγδόῳ ( 3, 3). ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη πλησίον τοῦ Ἀραβικοῦ κόλπου. Σολοῦς πόλις Σικελίας, ὡς Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἐκλήθη δὲ ἀπὸ Σολοῦντος κακοξένου, ὃν ἀνεῖλεν Ἡρακλῆς. Πηλοῦς νῆσος περὶ Χίον. Ὀλοῦς πόλις Κρήτης. Ξενίων ἐν τοῖς Κρητικοῖς. Μυοῦς πόλις Ἰωνίας, ὡς Φίλων καὶ Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν αʹ χρονικῶν. Στράβων ιβʹ »τὸ περὶ Μαγνησίαν καὶ Μυοῦντα«. Ἰπνοῦς χωρίον ἐν Σάμῳ. Οἰκοῦς Καρίας πόλις. Πεσσινοῦς πόλις Γαλατίας ἀπό τινος Γάλλου Πεσσινοῦντος· τινὲς δὲ ἀπὸ…