Ἔρεσος - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἔρεσος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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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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Text Details

Entry	#107
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 275.17
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-08
Word count	36

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἔρεσος	Eresos · place · corrected · Q1018197
Λέσβος	Lesbos · place · corrected · Q128087
Μάκαρος	Makāros · person
Θεόφραστος	Theophrastus · person · corrected · Q160362
Ἀριστοτέλης	Aristotle · person
Τύρταμος	Tyrtamos · person
Ἐρέσιος	Eresian (demonym) · people
Ἐφέσιος	Ephesian (demonym) · people
Ἐρεσία	Eresia (female demonym) · people
Ἐρεσιεύς	Eresieus (male demonym) · people
Ἔρεσος	place · explicit · wikidata: Q1018197 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
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.

Links

Place links	Eresos \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_187.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:7163e35f4bd326d9	Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	καλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται/ἐκλήθη (ἀπο...) gloss:ef7a95cd709173ed	is/used to be/is/was called/named after (+ ἀπο) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.210

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…