Εὐπορία - Stephanos Ethnika

Εὐπορία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Εὐπορία, πόλις Μακεδονίας, ἣν Ἀλέξανδρος ταχέως νικήσας ἔκτισε καὶ ὠνόμασε διὰ τὸ εὔπορον. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Εὐποριεύς.

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Text Details

Entry	#163
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 286.12 · Billerbeck Ε163
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-09
Word count	16

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Εὐπορία	Euporia · place
Μακεδονία	Macedonia · place
Ἀλέξανδρος	Alexander · person
Εὐποριεύς	Euporieus (inhabitant of Euporia) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	"Alexander, having quickly conquered it, built it and named it because of the 'euporon' (i.e. because it was fertile / easily supplied / advantageous)."

Links

Place links	Euporie
Page scans	vol2_213.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.299

char LCS 53 (57.0%) · word LCS 10 (62.5%)

Stephanos

Εὐπορία, πόλις Μακεδονίας, ἣν Ἀλέξανδρος ταχέως νικήσας ἔκτισε καὶ ὠνόμασε διὰ τὸ εὔπορον. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Εὐποριεύς.

Herodian

ἣν Ἀλέξανδρος ταχέως νικήσας ἔκτισε καὶ ὠνόμασε διὰ τὸ εὔπορον. Θουρία πόλις Ἰταλίας, ἣ καὶ Θούριοι καὶ Θούριον. ἔστι δὲ καὶ Μεσσηνίας πόλις. Παυσανίας δὲ ( 4, 31, 1) Ἄνθειαν αὐτήν φησι. τινὲς δὲ Θουνίαν. Θυμιατηρία πόλις Λιβύης. Ἰκαρία δῆμος τῆς Αἰγηΐδος φυλῆς ἀπὸ Ἰκαρίου τοῦ πατρ…