Εὐεργέται - Stephanos Ethnika

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Εὐεργέται, Σκυθικὸν ἔθνος, Στράβων. ὃ καὶ Ἀριμασποί ἐλέγετο. ἐκεῖ γὰρ τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς Ἀργοῦς χειμῶνος πνεύσαντος διασωθῆναι τὸ σκάφος καὶ οὕτως κληθῆναι.

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Text Details

Entry	#153
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 284.16 · Billerbeck Ε153
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-09
Word count	22

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	15,2,10 [C 724,32]

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Εὐεργέται	Euergetae (Euergetai) · people
Σκύθαι	Scythians (Scythian nation) · people
Ἀριμασποί	Arimaspians · people
Ἀργώ	Argo (the ship) · other

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Folk Etymology Narrative	“which was also called Arimaspoi. For there, when the winter's blast fell upon those on the Argo, the ship was preserved, and thus it was called.”

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Herodian 1.73

char LCS 105 (85.4%) · word LCS 19 (86.4%)

Stephanos

Εὐεργέται, Σκυθικὸν ἔθνος, Στράβων. ὃ καὶ Ἀριμασποί ἐλέγετο. ἐκεῖ γὰρ τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς Ἀργοῦς χειμῶνος πνεύσαντος διασωθῆναι τὸ σκάφος καὶ οὕτως κληθῆναι.

Herodian

…ιν ἀραβιστὶ ὁ ἐκ μοιχείας γενόμενος. οἰκέτης, ὀφελέτης, φυλέτης, εὐνέτης, ἐρέτης, γενέτης, γαμέτης, Μακέτης ὁ Μακεδών, Ματυκέτης ἔθνος Σκυθικόν. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Μασσαγέτης ἔθνος Σκυθῶν, ἔνθα Κῦρος ἐτελεύτησε. Εὐεργέτης Σκυθικὸν ἔθνος. Στράβων ὃ καὶ Ἀριμασποί ἐλέγετο. ἐκεῖ γὰρ τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς Ἀργοῦς χειμῶνος πνεύσαντος διασωθῆναι τὸ σκάφος καὶ οὕτω κληθῆναι. Θυσσαγέτης ἔθνος περὶ τὴν Μαιῶτιν λίμνην ὡς Ἡρόδοτος (IV 22). Τορέτης ἔθνος Ποντικόν. Ἀπολλόδωρος δευτέρῳ περὶ γῆς. Μυργέτης ἔθνος Σκυθικόν. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἀρότης, ἀγρότης, δημότης, ὀμότης καὶ ξυνωμότης, τοξ…