Ἠδωνοί - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἠδωνοί OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

people

Ἠδωνοί, ἔθνος Θρᾴκης, ἀπὸ Ἠδωνοῦ τοῦ Μύγδονος ἀδελφοῦ. καὶ τὸ θηλυκὸν Ἠδωνή καὶ Ἠδωναί. λέγεται καὶ Ἠδωνεύς καὶ Ἠδωνιάτης.

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Text Details

Entry	#3
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 298.17
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-10
Word count	19

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἠδωνοί	Edonians (Ἠδωνοί) · people · corrected · Q987699
Θρᾴκη	Thrace · place · corrected · Q41741
Ἠδωνός	Edonus (eponymic founder) · person
Μύγδων	Mygdon · person
Ἠδωναί	Edonians (variant) · people
Ἠδωνεύς	Edonian (ethnic singular) · people
Ἠδωνιᾶτης	Edoniates (ethnic variant) · people
Ἠδωνοί	place · explicit · wikidata: Q987699 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	from Ἠδωνός (Hedonos), the brother of Mygdon.
Unclear Metalinguistic	and the ethnicon (demonym) is Ἠδωνοί and Ἠδωναί. It is also said Ἠδωνεύς and Ἠδωνιάτης.

Links

Place links	Edoni
Page scans	vol2_239.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.185

char LCS 38 (38.4%) · word LCS 7 (36.8%)

Stephanos

Ἠδωνοί, ἔθνος Θρᾴκης, ἀπὸ Ἠδωνοῦ τοῦ Μύγδονος ἀδελφοῦ. καὶ τὸ θηλυκὸν Ἠδωνή καὶ Ἠδωναί. λέγεται καὶ Ἠδωνεύς καὶ Ἠδωνιάτης.

Herodian

…νός πόλις Σαρματίας τῆς ἐν Εὐρώπῃ ἀπὸ Γελωνοῦ τοῦ Ἡρακλέους, τοῦ Ἀγαθύρσου ἀδελφοῦ. ἔστι δὲ ἡ πόλις ξυλίνη, κειμένη ἐν Βουδίνοις, ὡς Ἡρόδοτος (IV 108). καὶ ὁ οἰκήτωρ ὁμοφώνως. υἱωνός, Τιθωνός, Κολωνός, μελεδωνός, Ἠδωνός ἔθνος Θρᾴκης ἀπὸ Ἠδωνοῦ τοῦ Μύγδονος ἀδελφοῦ, Ἐτεωνός πόλις Βοιωτίας. Ὅμηρος «πολύκνημόν τ´ Ἐτεωνόν» (Il. Β 497). καλεῖται δὲ νῦν Σκάρφη. Καννωνός, Ὀθρωνός πόλις, οἱ δὲ νῆσον πρὸς νότον Σικελίας. «ἄλλοι δὲ Μελίτην νῆσον Ὀθρωνοῦ πέλας» (Lycophr. 1027). Βωδωνός ἥρως…