Εὔτρησις - Stephanos Ethnika

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village

Εὔτρησις, κώμη [Βοιωτίας]. Ὅμηρος “Κώπας Εὔτρησίν τε”. κεῖται δὲ παρὰ τὴν ὁδὸν τὴν ἐκ Θεσπιῶν εἰς Πλαταιὰς ἀπάγουσαν, ἣν ἐτείχισε Ζῆθος καὶ Ἀμφίων. ἐκλήθη δὲ Εὔτρησις διὰ τὸ πολλαῖς αὐτὴν πρότερον χρήσασθαι ῥύμαις, ὡς Ἐπαφρόδιτος. ὁ κωμήτης Εὐτρησίτης, ἀφ´ οὗ Ἀπόλλων Εὐτρησίτης· καὶ ἱερὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ μαντεῖον ἐνδοξότατον. τὸ γὰρ Εὐτρήσιοι πόλις Ἀρκαδίας καὶ οὐκ ἐθνικόν. ἔστι δὲ καὶ εἰς τόπον ἐπίρρημα Εὔτρησίνδε, ὡς Μενέλαος.

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Text Details

Entry	#174
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 287.21 · Billerbeck Ε174
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-09
Word count	66

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ὅμηρος (Homer)	Iliad · B 502
Ἐπαφρόδιτος (Epaphroditus)	fr. 19 Braswell/ Billerbeck = fr. 20 Lünzner
Μενέλαος (Menelaus)	SH 555 = FGrHist 384 F 4

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Εὔτρησις	Eutrēsis (Eutresis) · place
Βοιωτία	Boeotia · place
Κῶπας	Kopas / Kopae · place
Θεσπιαί	Thespiae · place
Πλαταιαί	Plataea · place
Ζῆθος	Zethus · person
Ἀμφίων	Amphion · person
Εὐτρησίτης	Eutrēsitis (inhabitant of Eutrēsis) · people
Ἀπόλλων	Apollo · deity
Εὐτρήσιοι	Eutrēsioi (the Eutrēsian people) · people
Εὔτρησις	Eutrēsis (form: Εὐτρησίν) · place
Εὔτρησις	Eutrēsis (form: Εὐτρησίνδε) · place
Ἀρκαδία	Arcadia · place

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	And it was called Eutrēsis because it was formerly surrounded/protected by many defensive works (ramparts/fortifications).
Eponym Person	The villager (inhabitant) Eutrēsitis — from whom Apollo is called Eutrēsitis.

Links

Place links	Eutresis \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_217.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.120

char LCS 32 (9.3%) · word LCS 5 (7.7%)

Stephanos

…υσαν, ἣν ἐτείχισε Ζῆθος καὶ Ἀμφίων. ἐκλήθη δὲ Εὔτρησις διὰ τὸ πολλαῖς αὐτὴν πρότερον χρήσασθαι ῥύμαις, ὡς Ἐπαφρόδιτος. ὁ κωμήτης Εὐτρησίτης, ἀφ´ οὗ Ἀπόλλων Εὐτρησίτης· καὶ ἱερὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ μαντεῖον ἐνδοξότατον. τὸ γὰρ Εὐτρήσιοι πόλις Ἀρκαδίας καὶ οὐκ ἐθνικόν. ἔστι δὲ καὶ εἰς τόπον ἐπίρρημα Εὔτρησίνδε, ὡς Μενέλαος.

Herodian

…ς, Χερσονήσιος. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ «Ἀψινθίοισι πρὸς μεσημβρίην ὁμορέουσι Χερσονήσιοι», οὗ τὸ θηλυκὸν Εὐριπίδης «ὃς τὴν ἀρίστην Χερσονησίαν πλάκα» (Hec. 8). Φαγρήσιος, Ἀρήσιος, Βερήσιος, Ἀδρυμήσιος, Γαλλήσιος, Ἑλικήσιος. Εὐθρήσιοι πόλις Ἀρκαδίας καὶ οὐκ ἐθνικόν. Ἰθακήσιος, Καρπήσιος ἔθνος Ἰβηρικόν. Κορήσιος, Κρεμήσιος, Κρήσιος, Κυνήσιος, Λιθήσιος ὁ Ἀπόλλων ἐν τῷ Μαλέα λίθῳ προσιδρυμένος ἐκεῖ. Ῥιανὸς ἐν Ἠλιακῶν τρίτῳ. Μαραθήσιος, Μιλήσιος ὃ σεσημείωται ἐν τοπικοῖς, ὅτι ἐτράπη τ…