Ἐρεμβοί - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἐρεμβοί OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

people

Ἐρεμβοί, ἔθνος Ἀράβων. Ὅμηρος “καὶ Σιδονίους καὶ Ἐρεμβούς”. τούτους δέ φησι τοὺς Τρωγλοδύτας, ἀπὸ τοῦ εἰς τὴν ἔραν βαίνειν. λέγονται καὶ Ἐρεμβαῖοι καὶ θηλυκὸν Ἐρεμβίς.

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Text Details

Entry	#106
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 275.13 · Billerbeck Ε106
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-08
Word count	26

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ὅμηρος (Homer)	(δ 84)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἐρεμβοί	Eremboi (ethnic name) · people
Ἄραβες	Arabs · people
Σιδόνιοι	Sidonians · people
Ἐρεμβοί	Eremboi (accusative plural) · people
Τρωγλοδύται	Troglodytes / Troglodytae · people
Ἐρεμβαῖοι	Erembaioi (variant ethnonym) · people
Ἐρεμβίς	Erembis (feminine form) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Folk Etymology Narrative	But he says that these are the Troglodytes, from their going into the 'ēran' (i.e. from their going into the spring/season).

Links

Place links	Eremboi
Page scans	vol2_187.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.139

char LCS 37 (27.4%) · word LCS 8 (32.0%)

Stephanos

Ἐρεμβοί, ἔθνος Ἀράβων. Ὅμηρος “καὶ Σιδονίους καὶ Ἐρεμβούς”. τούτους δέ φησι τοὺς Τρωγλοδύτας, ἀπὸ τοῦ εἰς τὴν ἔραν βαίνειν. λέγονται καὶ Ἐρεμβαῖοι καὶ θηλυκὸν Ἐρεμβίς.

Herodian

…ποθανόντος αὐτόθι». Τὰ εἰς 'βος' ἐπιθετικὰ ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβάς, εἰ μὴ τὸ 'η' παραλήγοι ἢ σύνθετα εἴη ἀπὸ τῶν εἰς 'βος' ληγόντων, ὀξύνεται, ἐρεμβός καὶ Ἐρεμβοί ἔθνος Ἀραβίας. Ὅμηρος «καὶ Σιδονίους καὶ Ἐρεμβούς» (Od. δ 84), τούτους δέ φησι τοὺς Τρωγλοδύτας ἀπὸ τοῦ εἰς ἔραν βαίνειν. λέγονται καὶ Ἐρεμβαῖοι. τούτῳ δὲ ὁμοίως καὶ Περραιβός ἐθνικόν, οὗ θηλυκὸν κατὰ κοινότητα ἡ Περραιβός καὶ Περραιβή. κολοβός, βουφορβός, ἱπποφορβός. τὸ δὲ ἔφηβος, ἄνηβος παραλήγουσι τῷ 'η'. τὸ δὲ φιλόκυβος σ…