Ἠδωνοί - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἠδωνοί OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

people

Entry #3
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 298.17 | Billerbeck: Η3
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-10
Word count: 19
Entities: Ἠδωνοί (Edonians (Ἠδωνοί)) [people], Θρᾴκη (Thrace) [place], Ἠδωνός (Edonus (eponymic founder)) [person], Μύγδων (Mygdon) [person], Ἠδωναί (Edonians (variant)) [people], Ἠδωνεύς (Edonian (ethnic singular)) [people], Ἠδωνιᾶτης (Edoniates (ethnic variant)) [people]
Etymologies: 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.
Source: vol2_239.jpg
Edit

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

Translation pending

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…