Ὀξυδράκαι - Stephanos Ethnika

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people

Entry #77
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 494.1 | Billerbeck: Ο77
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count: 17
Entities: Ὀξυδράκαι (Oxydracai) [people], Ὀξυδράκαι (Oxydracai) [people], Ἀλέξανδρος (Alexander) [person], Πτολεμαῖος (Ptolemy) [person]
Etymologies: Folk Etymology Narrative: From whom, having saved Alexander, Ptolemy (was) called 'Soter' (the Savior).
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Ὀξυδράκαι, ἔθνος Ἰνδικόν, ἀφ´ ὧν σώσας Ἀλέξανδρον Πτολεμαῖος σωτὴρ ἐκλήθη. οἱ δὲ ψεῦδος τὸ περὶ τῶν Ὀξυδρακῶν.

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Herodian 1.69

char LCS 80 (89.9%) · word LCS 16 (94.1%)

Stephanos

Ὀξυδράκαι, ἔθνος Ἰνδικόν, ἀφ´ ὧν σώσας Ἀλέξανδρον Πτολεμαῖος σωτὴρ ἐκλήθη. οἱ δὲ ψεῦδος τὸ περὶ τῶν Ὀξυδρακῶν.

Herodian

Δαδίκης ἔθνος Περσικόν. Ἡρόδοτος ἑβδόμῃ (c. 66). Ὀξυδράκης ἔθνος Ἰνδικόν, ἀφ´ ὧν σώσας Ἀλέξανδρον Πτολεμαῖος σωτὴρ ἐκλήθη· οἱ δὲ ψεῦδος τὸ περὶ τῶν Ὀξυδρακῶν. Δερβίκκης ἔθνος πλησίον τῶν Ὑρκανῶν. Ἀπολλώνιος δὲ δὶς τὸ 'κ' καλῶς γράφει. Κτησίας δὲ Δερβισσοὺς αὐτούς φησιν ἢ Τερβισσούς. Καππαδόκης. Ἡρόδοτος δέ φησιν (I 72). λέγεται καὶ Καππάδοξ καὶ Καππάδοκος. Καραμβύκης ἔθνος Ὑ…