Ζωστήρ

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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Ζωστήρ, τῆς Ἀττικῆς ἰσθμός, ὅπου φασὶ τὴν Λητὼ λῦσαι τὴν ζώνην [καὶ] καθεῖσαν ἐν τῇ λίμνῃ λούσασθαι. ἐνταῦθα θύουσιν Ἁλαεῖς Λητοῖ καὶ Ἀρτέμιδι καὶ Ἀπόλλωνι Ζωστηρίῳ. ὁ τοπίτης Ζωστήριος. τιμᾶται καὶ Ζωστηρία Ἀθηνᾶ ἐν Λοκροῖς τοῖς Ἐπικνημιδίοις.

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Text Details

Entry#34
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 298.10 · Billerbeck Ζ34
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-10
Word count37

Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΖώστηρZoster · place
ἈττικήAttica · place
ΛητώLeto · deity
ἉλαεῖςHalaeans · people
ἌρτεμιςArtemis · deity
ἈπόλλωνApollo · deity
ΖωστήριοςZosterios (epithet) · other
ΖωστήριοςZosterios (resident/demonym) · person
ΖωστηρίαZosteria (epithet) · other
ἈθηνᾶAthena · deity
ΛοκροίLocrians · people
ἘπικνημῖοιEpiknemidii · people
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Folk Etymology Narrative‘where they say that Leto loosened her belt and, having taken it off, bathed in the lake.’ (i.e. the place is explained from Leto’s belt episode)
Morphological Composition‘Zoster; here the Halae sacrifice to Leto and Artemis and to Apollo Zosterios. Also Athena is honoured as Zosteria.’ (the names/epithets Zosterios, Zosteria formed from ζώνη/ζωστήρ ‘belt’)
Unclear Metalinguistic‘the local inhabitant Zosterios.’ (a local named Zosterios — relationship of personal name and place-name is stated but origin is not made explicit)

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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.47
char LCS 134 (67.0%) · word LCS 26 (70.3%)
Stephanos
Ζωστήρ, τῆς Ἀττικῆς ἰσθμός, ὅπου φασὶ τὴν Λητὼ λῦσαι τὴν ζώνην [καὶ] καθεῖσαν ἐν τῇ λίμνῃ λούσασθαι. ἐνταῦθα θύουσιν Ἁλαεῖς Λητοῖ καὶ Ἀρτέμιδι καὶ Ἀπόλλωνι Ζωστηρίῳ. ὁ τοπίτης Ζωστήριος. τιμᾶται καὶ Ζωστηρία Ἀθηνᾶ ἐν Λοκροῖς τοῖς Ἐπικνημιδίοις.
Herodian
…υ. Τὰ εἰς 'ηρ' ὀξύνεται καὶ βαρύνεται. καὶ ὀξύνεται μὲν ἁπλᾶ ὄντα ἀρσενικά. ὁ δὲ λόγος περὶ τῶν εἰς 'ηρ' τοῦ 'τ' προηγουμένου τοῦ 'η', στατήρ, ἐλατήρ, καμπτήρ, ὀλετήρ, ξυστήρ, γενετήρ, πατήρ, σωτήρ, χρηστήρ, ζωστήρ, καὶ Ζωστήρ τῆς Ἀττικῆς ἰσθμός, ὅπου φασὶ τὴν Λητὼ λῦσαι τὴν ζώνην καὶ καθεῖσαν ἐν τῇ λίμνῃ λούσασθαι. ἐνταῦθα θύουσιν Ἁλαεῖς Λητοῖ καὶ Ἀρτέμιδι καὶ Ἀπόλλωνι Ζωστηρίῳ. ἐξαυστήρ. Ἐξαύτηρ δὲ κύριον ὡς τὸ ἀμάτηρ καὶ ἄντηρ καὶ Ἄστηρ κύριον. τὸ δὲ φράτηρ Ἀττικοὶ μὲν βαρύνουσιν, οἱ Δωριεῖς ὀξύνουσιν. φράτερες δέ

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