Ἐνετοί - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ἐνετοί, Ὅμηρος “ἐξ Ἐνετῶν, ὅθεν ἡμιόνων γένος ἀγροτεράων”. ᾤκουν δὲ περὶ Παφλαγονίαν. λέγονται καὶ Ἐνετίδες ἵπποι. ἦν δὲ καὶ κτητικὸν [Ἐνετικός]. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Ἐνετός ἀφ´ ἧς ἦν Μύρμηξ ὁ διαλεκτικὸς φιλόσοφος, ὡς Διογένης ἐν δευτέρῳ φιλοσόφου ἱστορίας.

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Text Details

Entry	#80
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 270.18 · Billerbeck Ε80
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-08
Word count	39

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ὅμηρος (Homer)	Β 852
Διογένης (Diogenes)	β Φιλοσόφου ἱστορίας · (2,113)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἐνετοί	Eneti (the Veneti) · people
Παφλαγονία	Paphlagonia · place
Ἐνετός	Enetos (city) · place
Μύρμηξ	Myrmex · person

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Place Transfer	from the Eneti, whence (comes) the race/breed of mules of a more rustic character
Morphological Composition	horses are also called 'Enetides' (i.e. named after the Eneti)
Morphological Composition	there was also the possessive/adjectival form 'Enetikos' (derived from the name Enet-)

Links

Place links	Veneti \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_179.jpg
Review	Open review page

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.218

char LCS 40 (19.8%) · word LCS 7 (18.4%)

Stephanos

Ἐνετοί, Ὅμηρος “ἐξ Ἐνετῶν, ὅθεν ἡμιόνων γένος ἀγροτεράων”. ᾤκουν δὲ περὶ Παφλαγονίαν. λέγονται καὶ Ἐνετίδες ἵπποι. ἦν δὲ καὶ κτητικὸν [Ἐνετικός]. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Ἐνετός ἀφ´ ἧς ἦν Μύρμηξ ὁ διαλεκτικὸς φιλόσοφος, ὡς Διογένης ἐν δευτέρῳ φιλοσόφου ἱστορίας.

Herodian

… Διονύσιος τρισκαιδεκάτῃ Ῥωμαϊκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας. Ἔχετος, Δέρκετος, Μένετος τὸ κύριον, μενετός τὸ ἐπίθετον. τούτοις ἠκολούθησε καὶ τὸ ἔμετος ὡς ἔχον τὸ 'ε' ὥσπερ τὰ ἄνω. σεσημείωται τὸ Ἐνετός ἔθνος Παφλαγονίας ὀξυνόμενον. Ὅμηρος «ἐξ Ἐνετῶν, ὅθεν ἡμιόνων γένος ἀγροτεράων» (Il. Β 852). τὰ δὲ ἔχοντα τὸ 'α' ὁμοίως, ἄργετος,