Εὔβοια - Stephanos Ethnika

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Εὔβοια, νῆσος μία τῶν ἑπτά, παραμήκης, ἣ καὶ Μάκρις ἀπὸ Εὐβοίας. Ἡρόδοτος. ἔστι καὶ τόπος ἐν Ἄργει. ἔστι καὶ πόλις ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ, εἰς ἣν οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς νήσου εἰς Ἰλλυριοὺς ἀποβάντες Ἄβαντες ἐκλήθησαν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν τῆς νήσου Εὐβοιεύς, καὶ Εὐβοιίς τὸ θηλυκόν. καὶ Εὐβοεύς χωρὶς τοῦ « ι », καί τοι τὰ ἀπὸ τῶν εἰς « α » παραγόμενα εἰς « ευς » φυλάττει τὴν παραλήγουσαν· διὸ καὶ τὸ Ἀλεξάνδρεια οὐ προϋπάρχει τοῦ Ἀλεξανδρεύς, ἔδει γὰρ Ἀλεξανδρειεύς, ἀλλ´ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀλέξανδρος, ὡς Ταρσός Ταρσεύς. ἔστι καὶ Εὐβοϊκός κτητικόν.

Euboia: an island, one of the seven, oblong, which also Makris, from Euboia. Herodotos. There is also a place in Argos. There is also a city in Macedonia, to which those from the island who crossed over to the Illyrians were called Abantes. The ethnonym of the island Euboieus, and Euboiis the feminine. And Euboeus without the 'i', although derived from those in 'a' into 'eus' keep the penult; wherefore also Alexandreia does not underlie 'Alexandreus', for it would have to be 'Alexandreieus', but from Alexandros, as 'Tarsos' 'Tarseus'. There is also Euboikos the possessive.

External translation supplied by Brady Kiesling; reported Claude Fable 5.5 translation. Credit: Brady Kiesling and the Stephanos project (Greg Baker, Gabriel Jower, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling). Not individually verified; exact Greek input not supplied.

Text Details

Entry	#149
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 283.20
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-09
Word count	81

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἡσίοδος (Hesiod)	fr. 157 Most = p. 190a Merkelbach/West

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Εὔβοια	Euboea · place · corrected · Q26825
Μάκρις	Makris (alternate name) · place
Εὔβοια	Euboea (gen.) · place · corrected · Q26825
Ἄργος	Argos · place
Μακεδονία	Macedonia · place · corrected · Q81734
Ἰλλυριοί	Illyrians · people
Ἄβαντες	Abantes · people
Εὐβοεύς	Euboean (ethnic, masc.) · people
Εὐβοῖς	Euboean (ethnic, fem.) · people
Εὐβοεὺς	Euboeus (variant ethnic) · people
Ἀλεξάνδρεια	Alexandria · place · corrected · Q1393407
Ἀλεξανδρεύς	Alexandrian (ethnic) · people
Ἀλεξανδρειεύς	Alexandrieus (ethnic variant) · people
Ἀλέξανδρος	Alexander · person · corrected · Q8409
Ταρσός	Tarsus · place
Ταρσεῦς	Tarseus (ethnic) · people
Euboea (island)	place · island · Aegean Sea / Greece · explicit · unresolved
Euboea in Argos	place · place · Argos · explicit · unresolved
Euboea in Macedonia	place · city · Macedonia · explicit · unresolved

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	from Euboea.
Place Transfer	to which those who disembarked from the island into Illyria were called 'Abantes'.
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon of the island is 'Euboeus', and the feminine 'Eubois'. Also 'Euboeus' without the i, although those [ethnica] formed from stems in -a into -eus preserve the intervening vowel.
Morphological Composition	Therefore 'Alexandria' does not precede 'Alexandreus' (i.e. one would have expected 'Alexandreieus'); rather it is from 'Alexander', as 'Tarsos' gives 'Tarseus'.
Morphological Composition	There is also the possessive adjective 'Euboic(e)'.

Links

Place links	Euboea \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_207.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 · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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	καί + X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + Y (nominative PROPER NOUN) formula:0af867b3dd6df580	Translate as "Y is also 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · medium 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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	κτητικόν τό gloss:80c7f336a009c2c3	possessive Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	παραλήγω (παραλήγουσα ἡ, παραληγόμενα τά) gloss:98ac2508e432827d	be next to the end (ἡ π. second last syllable: penult; τὰ π. ) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	προπερισπάω gloss:5bc4931832242610	accent with circumflex on the ultima 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 1.281

char LCS 116 (29.2%) · word LCS 24 (29.3%)

Stephanos

Εὔβοια, νῆσος μία τῶν ἑπτά, παραμήκης, ἣ καὶ Μάκρις ἀπὸ Εὐβοίας. Ἡρόδοτος. ἔστι καὶ τόπος ἐν Ἄργει. ἔστι καὶ πόλις ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ, εἰς ἣν οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς νήσου εἰς Ἰλλυριοὺς ἀποβάντες Ἄβαντες ἐκλήθησαν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν τῆς νήσου Εὐβοιεύς, καὶ Εὐβοιίς τὸ θηλυκόν. καὶ Εὐβοεύς χωρὶς τοῦ « ι », καί τοι τὰ ἀπὸ τῶν εἰς « α » παραγόμενα εἰς « ευς » φυλάττει τὴν παραλήγουσαν· διὸ καὶ τὸ Ἀλεξάνδρεια οὐ προϋπάρχει τοῦ Ἀλεξανδρεύς, ἔ…

Herodian

…νουσιν. Τὰ εἰς 'α' συνεσταλμένον μονογενῆ ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβὰς παραλήγοντα τῇ 'οι' διφθόγγῳ προπαροξύνεται, εὔνοια, πρόνοια, ἄνοια, εὔχροια, δύσχροια, εὔπλοια, δύσπλοια, παλίρροια, ἀπόρροια, ὀρθόπνοια, δύσπνοια. Εὔβοια νῆσος, ἀπὸ Εὐβοίας. Ἡρόδοτος ( 5, 31). ἔστι καὶ τόπος ἐν Ἄργει. ἔστι καὶ πόλις ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ, εἰς ἣν οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς νήσου εἰς Ἰλλυριοὺς ἀποβάντες Ἄβαντες ἐκλήθησαν. Μελίβοια πόλις Θεσσαλίας. Στράβων ἐνάτῳ. Περίβοια, Στενόβοια, Ἀλίνδοια πόλις Μακεδονίας. Βέροια πόλις Μακεδονίας, ἣν Φέρωνα κτίσαι φασίν, αὐτοὺς δὲ τὸ 'φ' εἰς 'β' μεταποιεῖν, ὡς Φάλακρον Βάλακρον καὶ Βίλιππον καὶ Κεβαλ…

Herodian 1.129

char LCS 12 (3.0%) · word LCS 5 (6.1%)

Stephanos

…δοτος. ἔστι καὶ τόπος ἐν Ἄργει. ἔστι καὶ πόλις ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ, εἰς ἣν οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς νήσου εἰς Ἰλλυριοὺς ἀποβάντες Ἄβαντες ἐκλήθησαν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν τῆς νήσου Εὐβοιεύς, καὶ Εὐβοιίς τὸ θηλυκόν. καὶ Εὐβοεύς χωρὶς τοῦ « ι », καί τοι τὰ ἀπὸ τῶν εἰς « α » παραγόμενα εἰς « ευς » φυλάττει τὴν παραλήγουσαν· διὸ καὶ τὸ Ἀλεξάνδρεια οὐ προϋπάρχει τοῦ Ἀλεξανδρεύς, ἔδει γὰρ Ἀλεξανδρειεύς, ἀλλ´ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀλέξανδρος, ὡς Ταρσός Ταρσεύς. ἔστι καὶ Εὐβοϊκός κτητικόν.

Herodian

…πουδή σπουδαῖος, τροπή τροπαῖος, εὐνή εὐναῖος. ἔστι δὲ καὶ Εὐναῖος ποταμὸς Καρίας. τὸ μέντοι ἐπιπόλαιος οὐκ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐπιπολῆς παρῆκται, ἀλλὰ παρὰ τὸ ἐπιπολάζω· πλὴν οἱ πλείους αὐτὸ περισπῶσιν. Ἐπιπολαῖος δὲ τὸ ἐθνικόν. * Τὰ ἀπὸ τῶν εἰς 'α' ληγόντων μακρᾷ παραληγομένων παραγόμενα διὰ τοῦ 'αιος' προπερισπᾶσθαι θέλει, μοῦσα Μουσαῖος, γενναῖος, Πισαῖος, ἑρσαῖος, Ἀσαῖος· παρὰ γὰρ τὸ αἶσα γέγονεν καὶ ἐξέστη πρότερον τὸ 'ι'. οὐ μάχεται τὸ Ἥραιος προπαροξυνόμενο…