Ὄννη - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ὄννη, ἐμπόριον τῆς εὐδαίμονος Ἀραβίας. Μαρκιανὸς ἐν περίπλῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὀνναῖος ὡς Ἐνναῖος.

Onnē: a trading-station in Arabia Felix. Mentioned by Marcianus in the Periplus. The ethnicon is Onnaios, as Ennaios.

Text Details

Entry	#73
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 493.17 · Billerbeck Ο73
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	13
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v1 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Μαρκιανός (Marcianus (Markianos))	Περιπλῷ · 1,18 [GGM 1,527,5]

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ὄννη	Onnē (Onne) · place
Εὐδαίμων Ἀραβία	Eudaemon Arabia (Eudaemonis Arabia) · place
Ὀνναῖος	Onnaios (ethnic) · people
Ἐνναῖος	Ennaios (variant ethnic) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	The ethnic (demonym) is Ὀνναῖος (Onnaios), as Ἐνναῖος (Ennaios).

Links

Place links	Ainunah
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1994.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.326

char LCS 32 (42.7%) · word LCS 5 (38.5%)

Stephanos

Ὄννη, ἐμπόριον τῆς εὐδαίμονος Ἀραβίας. Μαρκιανὸς ἐν περίπλῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὀνναῖος ὡς Ἐνναῖος.

Herodian

…τοῦ 'α'. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα ἑῴα πόλις. λίμνη καὶ Λίμναι πόλις ἐν Ἑλλησπόντῳ, περὶ Σηστόν. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. καὶ ἕτερος τόπος Ἀττικῆς Λίμναι καλούμενος, ἔνθα ὁ Διόνυσος ἐτιμᾶτο. Καλλίμαχος «Λιμναίῳ δὲ χοροστάδας ἦγον ἑορτάς». Ὄννη ἐμπόριον τῆς εὐδαίμονος Ἀραβίας. ποίμνη. Βάτναι πόλις τῆς Ὀσροήνης. τὸ δὲ ψεδνός ψεδνή τριγενές. τὸ δὲ πρυμνή ἐπίθετον, ὅταν δὲ ἰδίως