Ἐλευθεραί - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ἐλευθεραί, πόλις Βοιωτίας, ἀπὸ Ἐλευθῆρος τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος. ἔστι καὶ Κρήτης ἀπὸ Ἐλευθῆρος ἑνὸς τῶν Κουρήτων, ἥ τις καὶ Σάωρος ἐκαλεῖτο ἀπὸ Σαώρης νύμφης. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη ἐπὶ τῷ Ἴστρῳ ποταμῷ ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ, διὰ τὸ φυγόντας Αἰήτην τοὺς περὶ Ἰάσονα ἐκεῖ τοῦ φόβου ἐλευθερωθῆναι. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Λυκίας ἀπό τινος νύμφης. ὁ πολίτης Ἐλευθερεύς, ἢ Ἐλευθεραῖος, ὡς Ἡρακλείδης.

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Text Details

Entry	#46
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 265.10 · Billerbeck Ε46
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-07
Word count	57

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἡρακλείδης (Heracleides)	—

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἐλευθεραί	Eleutherae · place
Βοιωτία	Boeotia · place
Ἐλευθέρος	Eleutheros · person
Ἀπόλλων	Apollo · deity
Κρήτη	Crete · place
Κούρητες	Curetes · people
Σάωρος	Saôros · place
Σαώρης	Saôris (nymph) · person
Ἴστρος	Ister (Danube) · place
Πόντος	Pontus (the Black Sea) · place
Αἰήτης	Aeëtes · person
Ἰάσων	Jason · person
Λυκία	Lycia · place
Ἐλευθερεύς	Eleuthereus (demonym) · other
Ἐλευθεραίος	Eleutheraios (demonym) · other

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	A city of Boeotia, from Euletheros, son of Apollo.
Eponym Person	There is also (one) of Crete from Euletheros, one of the Curetes.
Eponym Person	Who was also called Saoros, from Saores the nymph.
Folk Etymology Narrative	There is also another by the river Ister in Pontus, because those around Jason, having fled Aietes, were there freed from fear.
Eponym Person	There is also a city of Lycia from some nymph.

Links

Place links	Fortress of Eleutherai \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_167.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

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Herodian 1.260

char LCS 239 (82.4%) · word LCS 31 (53.4%)

Stephanos

Ἐλευθεραί, πόλις Βοιωτίας, ἀπὸ Ἐλευθῆρος τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος. ἔστι καὶ Κρήτης ἀπὸ Ἐλευθῆρος ἑνὸς τῶν Κουρήτων, ἥ τις καὶ Σάωρος ἐκαλεῖτο ἀπὸ Σαώρης νύμφης. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη ἐπὶ τῷ Ἴστρῳ ποταμῷ ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ, διὰ τὸ φυγόντας Αἰήτην τοὺς περὶ Ἰάσονα ἐκεῖ τοῦ φόβου ἐλευθερωθῆναι. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Λυκίας ἀπό τινος νύμφης. ὁ πολίτης Ἐλευθερεύς, ἢ Ἐλευθεραῖος, ὡς Ἡρακλείδης.

Herodian

…νὲς δὲ καὶ Φιλωτερίαν αὐτὴν εἰρήκασιν. τὸ δὲ Γλυκερά ὀξύνεται, εἴτε κύριον εἴτε ἐπιθετικὸν εἴη ὡς καὶ Ἱερά· οὕτως γὰρ ἐκλήθη ἡ Τάρσος πόλις. καὶ τὸ περιστερὰ τετρασύλλαβον καὶ τὸ Ἐλευθεραί πληθυντικῶς λεγόμενον. ἔστι δὲ πόλις Βοιωτίας ἀπὸ Ἐλευθῆρος τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος· ἔστι καὶ Κρήτης ἀπὸ Ἐλευθῆρος ἑνὸς τῶν Κουρήτων, ἥτις καὶ Σάωρος ἐκαλεῖτο ἀπὸ Σαώρης νύμφης. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη ἐπὶ τῷ Ἴστρῳ ποταμῷ ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ διὰ τὸ φυγόντας Αἰήτην τοὺς περὶ Ἰάσονα ἐκεῖ τοῦ φόβου ἐλευθερωθῆναι. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Λυκίας ἀπότινος νύμφης. * Τὰ εἰς 'ηρα' ὑπερδισύλλαβα μονογενῆ παροξύνεται, μερμήρα, Ὀτρήρα, Δασλήρα· ἔστι δὲ ὄνομα λίμνης, μενδήρα. τὸ δὲ Αἱμηρά καὶ Λιμηρά ἐπιθετικά ἐστιν· οὕτως γὰρ ἐκαλεῖτο Ἐπίδαυρος, Αἱμηρά μὲν διὰ τὸ συνεχῶς αἱμάσσεσθαι τ…