Ἔρεσος - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἔρεσος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Entry #107
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 275.17 | Billerbeck: Ε107
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-08
Word count: 36
Entities: Ἔρεσος (Eresos) [place], Λέσβος (Lesbos) [place], Μάκαρος (Makāros) [person], Θεόφραστος (Theophrastus) [person], Ἀριστοτέλης (Aristotle) [person], Τύρταμος (Tyrtamos) [person], Ἐρέσιος (Eresian (demonym)) [people], Ἐφέσιος (Ephesian (demonym)) [people], Ἐρεσία (Eresia (female demonym)) [people], Ἐρεσιεύς (Eresieus (male demonym)) [people]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: (Eresos) from Eresos, son of Makaros (i.e. the city is named after Eresos, son of Makaros).; Folk Etymology Narrative: who was called Tyrtamos, and because his phrasing was divine he was called Theophrastus.; Unclear Metalinguistic: The ethnic name (demonym) is Ἐρέσιος, like Ἐφέσιος, and also Ἐρεσία and Ἐρεσιεύς.
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Ἔρεσος, πόλις Λέσβου, ἀπὸ Ἐρέσου τοῦ Μάκαρος, ἐξ ἧς Θεόφραστος Ἀριστοτέλους γνώριμος καὶ διάδοχος ὁ ἐπιφανέστατος, ὃς Τύρταμος ἐλέγετο καὶ διὰ τὸ τῆς φράσεως θεσπέσιον Θεόφραστος ἐκλήθη. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἐρέσιος ὡς Ἐφέσιος, καὶ Ἐρεσία καὶ Ἐρεσιεύς.

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char LCS 36 (18.0%) · word LCS 7 (19.4%)

Stephanos

Ἔρεσος, πόλις Λέσβου, ἀπὸ Ἐρέσου τοῦ Μάκαρος, ἐξ ἧς Θεόφραστος Ἀριστοτέλους γνώριμος καὶ διάδοχος ὁ ἐπιφανέστατος, ὃς Τύρταμος ἐλέγετο καὶ διὰ τὸ τῆς φράσεως θεσπέσιον Θεόφραστος ἐκλήθη. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἐρέσιος ὡς Ἐφέσιος, καὶ Ἐρεσία καὶ Ἐρεσιεύς.

Herodian

…ος δὲ Λυδίας αὐτήν φησιν (I 142). ἐκλήθη δὲ ἀπὸ μιᾶς τῶν Ἀμαζόνων, ἣν καὶ βασίλισσαν καὶ πρόπολον Ἀρτέμιδος εἶναί φασιν. ἔστι καὶ Ἔφεσος νῆσος ἐν τῷ Νείλῳ καὶ Χίος καὶ Λέσβος καὶ Κύπρος καὶ Σάμος καὶ ἄλλαι, ὡς Ἑκαταῖος. Ἔρεσος πόλις Λέσβου ἀπὸ Ἐρέσου τοῦ Μάκαρος. τὸ μέντοι Θυεσσός πόλις Λυδίας ἀπὸ Θυεσσοῦ καπήλου—ἔστι καὶ Πισιδίας—δύο 'σσ' ἔχον ὀξύνεται. Τὰ εἰς 'σος' ὑπερδισύλλαβα τῷ 'η' παραληγόμενα ἕτερον ἔχοντα 'σ' ὀξύνεται· εἰ δέ τι βαρύτονον εἴη, παρώνυμον ἂν εἴη. τὰ δὲ ἓν…