Ὁμόλιον - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ὁμόλιον, πόλις Μακεδονίας καὶ Μαγνησίας. Στράβων ἑβδόμῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὁμολιεύς. τὸ δὲ Ὁμολώϊον τεμενικόν ἐστι κατὰ πλεονασμὸν τοῦ « ω ».

Homolion: a city of Macedonia and Magnesia. Strabo in the seventh. The ethnonym Homolieus. But Homoloion is a temple-name by pleonasm of the 'o'.

External translation supplied by Brady Kiesling; reported Claude Fable 5.5 translation. Credit: Brady Kiesling and the Stephanos project (Greg Baker, Gabriel Jower, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling). Not individually verified; exact Greek input not supplied.

Text Details

Entry	#68
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 493.5
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	19

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	(7 fr. 26b)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ὁμόλιον	Homolion (Homolium) · place · corrected · Q16575744
Μακεδονία	Macedonia · place · corrected · Q81734
Μαγνησία	Magnesia · place · corrected · Q60790367
Ὁμολιεὺς	Homolieus (ethnic name, inhabitant of Homolion) · people
Ὁμολώϊον	Homoloion (the temenos/precinct) · place
Homoilion in Macedonia	place · city · Macedonia · explicit · unresolved

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	The ethnicon (demonym) is Ὁμολιεύς.
Morphological Composition	And the form Ὁμολώϊον (temenikon) is (a) pleonasm/variant caused by the omega — i.e., a redundant form with omega.

Links

Place links	Homolium \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1994.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the 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
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	τεμενικός -ή -όν gloss:3e981809fd3607da	sanctuary name, relating to a sanctuary Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC Rule status: In progress	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 1.362

char LCS 47 (43.9%) · word LCS 7 (36.8%)

Stephanos

Ὁμόλιον, πόλις Μακεδονίας καὶ Μαγνησίας. Στράβων ἑβδόμῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὁμολιεύς. τὸ δὲ Ὁμολώϊον τεμενικόν ἐστι κατὰ πλεονασμὸν τοῦ « ω ».

Herodian

…κιον, Ναρύκιον πόλις Λοκρίδος, ἣ καὶ Νᾶρυξ λέγεται. Βρυσάκιον πόλις τῆς Παρθίνης. Στυράκιον ὄρος Κρήτης. Φαρνάκιον πόλις Φρυγίας, ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος περὶ Φρυγίας τρίτῳ. * Τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'λιον' ὑπὲρ τρεῖς συλλαβὰς προπαροξύνεται, Ὁμόλιον πόλις Μακεδονίας καὶ Μαγνησίας. Στράβων ἑβδόμῃ. πηδάλιον, κειμήλιον, κανθήλιον τὸ ἐπὶ τῇ πρύμνῃ ἐπικαμπὲς ξύλον. ἑδώλιον τὸ βάθρον τῆς νεώς, ἐφ´ ὃ καθέζονται οἱ ἐρέσσοντες. τραγάλιον, οἰνοπώλιον, ἀρτοπώλιον. Βαργύλια πόλις Καρίας, ἣν Ἄνδανον οἱ Κᾶρές φασιν, Ἀχιλλέως…

Herodian 1.122

char LCS 22 (20.6%) · word LCS 5 (26.3%)

Stephanos

Ὁμόλιον, πόλις Μακεδονίας καὶ Μαγνησίας. Στράβων ἑβδόμῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὁμολιεύς. τὸ δὲ Ὁμολώϊον τεμενικόν ἐστι κατὰ πλεονασμὸν τοῦ « ω ».

Herodian

…ὐ τὸ 'η'. τὰ δὲ εἰς 'ιος' τὸ 'ω' κατὰ τὴν τρίτην συλλαβὴν ἔχοντα ἀπὸ τῶν διὰ τοῦ 'ῳος' κατὰ διάλυσιν γίνονται, Κῷος καὶ Κώϊος, Μινῷος καὶ Μινώϊος, λώϊος, πατρώϊος, ἡρώϊος, Τρώϊος, Λητώϊος. τὸ δὲ Ὁμολώϊος «Ζεὺς Ὁμολώϊος» ἐστὶ κατὰ πλεονασμὸν τοῦ 'ω'. Ἔτι τὰ εἰς 'ιος' μὴ καθαρὰ τῷ 'η' ἢ τῷ 'ω' παραληγόμενα βαρύνεται, ἤπιος, Ἀλμώπιος, Συώπιος ἔθνος προσεχὲς τοῖς Λιβυρνοῖς,