Ὀπικοί - Stephanos Ethnika

Ὀπικοί OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Ὀπικοί, ἔθνος Ἰταλίας. Εὔδοξος ἕκτῳ γῆς περιόδου. γλώσσας συνέμιξαν. οἱ δὲ ὅτι Ὀφικοί ἀπὸ τῶν ὄφεων.

Opikoi: a people of Italy. Eudoxus, in the sixth book of his Periodos gēs, they “mingled languages”; but some that they are ‘Ophikoi’ from the snakes.

Text Details

Entry	#79
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 494.6 · Billerbeck Ο79
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	16
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v1 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Εὔδοξος (Eudoxus)	Γῆς περιόδου · fr. 321 Lasserre

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ὀπικός	Opici / Opikoi (Italic people) · people
Ἰταλία	Italy · place
Ὀφικός	Ophici / Ophikoi (variant name, lit. 'from snakes') · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Folk Etymology Narrative	But others say that (they were) Ophikoi (named) from the snakes.

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Herodian overlaps

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