Ὀλόφυξος - Stephanos Ethnika

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city

Entry #53
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 490.18 | Billerbeck: Ο53
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count: 19
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἡρόδοτος (Herodotus)
Entities: Ὀλόφυξος (Olophyxos) [place], Θρᾴκη (Thrace) [place], Ἄθως (Athos (Mount Athos)) [place], Ὀλοφύξιος (Olophyxios) [person]
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Ὀλόφυξος, πόλις ἐν Θρᾴκῃ περὶ τὸν Ἄθω. ὁ πολίτης “Ἡρόδοτος Ὀλοφύξιος περὶ νυμφῶν καὶ θεῶν γράψας”.

Olyphyxos: a city in Thrace, in the region of Athos. The citizen is called an Olyphyxian. From this place (came) Herodotus, the author who wrote On Nymphs and Gods.

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Herodian 1.186

char LCS 30 (38.5%) · word LCS 7 (43.8%)

Stephanos

Ὀλόφυξος, πόλις ἐν Θρᾴκῃ περὶ τὸν Ἄθω. ὁ πολίτης “Ἡρόδοτος Ὀλοφύξιος περὶ νυμφῶν καὶ θεῶν γράψας”.

Herodian

…νίων ἀπὸ Ὀάξου τοῦ Ἀκακαλλίδος τῆς θυγατρὸς τοῦ Μίνω. τινὲς δὲ διὰ τὸ καταγῆναι τὸν τόπον καὶ κρημνώδη ὑπάρχειν. καλοῦσι γὰρ τοὺς τοιούτους τόπους ἄξους, καθάπερ καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀγμούς. Χάραξος ἀπὸ τοῦ χαράξω, ἀφ´ οὗ Χαράξης. Ὀλόφυξος πόλις ἐν Θρᾴκῃ περὶ τὸν Ἄθω. Ἴξος λιμὴν τῆς Ῥόδου. τὸ μέντοι ἰξός τὸ προσηγορικὸν ὀξύνεται, καὶ τὸ λοξός, φοξός ὡς ἐπίθετα καὶ τὸ κοραξός ὡς ἐπίθετον ὀξύνεται, βαρύνεται δὲ ὡς ἐθνικόν. ἔστι δὲ ἔθνος Κόλχων πλησίον Κώλων. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. τὸ δὲ λαξ…