Ἡλίου πόλις

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Entry #9
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 300.17 | Billerbeck: Η9
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-10
Word count: 45
Sources: Ἡρόδοτος (Herodotus) β (2,3,1)
Entities: Ἡλιού πόλις (Heliopolis (city of Helios)) [place], Αἴγυπτος (Egypt) [place], Ἀκτίς (Actis) [person], Ἥλιος (Helios) [deity], Ῥόδη/Ῥόδος (Rhodos (Rhodes)) [place], Θρᾴκη (Thrace/Thracians) [people], Σάρδεις (Sardis) [place], Κόρινθος (Corinth) [place], Πάγος (Pagos (the hill)) [place], Ἐφύρη (Ephyra) [place], Φοινίκη (Phoenicia) [place], Ἡλιοπολίτης (Heliopolite (citizen of Heliopolis)) [people]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: 'Heliopolis' — literally 'city of Helios' (city named for the god Helios); Eponym Person: a city of Egypt, which Actis (son of Helios, and Rhode) founded; Place Transfer: and (called) Aromatophoros, from the Egyptian (i.e. deriving the name from the Egyptian / from Egypt); Unclear Metalinguistic: and Corinth was called 'Heliopolis', then 'Pagos', and thus 'Ephyra' (statement of former names); Morphological Composition: the citizen (of Heliopolis) is called 'Heliopolites' (demonym)
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Ἡλιούπολις, πόλις Αἰγύπτου, ἣν ἔκτισεν Ἀκτὶς ὁ Ἡλίου [καὶ] Ῥόδης. Ἡρόδοτος δευτέρᾳ. ἔστι καὶ Θρᾴκης. καὶ τῆς Ἀρωματοφόρου, ἀπὸ τῆς Αἰγυπτίας. καὶ δʹ ἐν Σάρδεσι. καὶ ἡ Κόρινθος Ἡλιούπολις ἐλέγετο, εἶτα Πάγος, καὶ οὕτως Ἐφύρη. ἔστι καὶ ἐν Φοινίκῃ. ὁ πολίτης Ἡλιοπολίτης.
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Herodian 1.93
char LCS 100 (47.4%) · word LCS 18 (42.9%)
Stephanos
Ἡλιούπολις, πόλις Αἰγύπτου, ἣν ἔκτισεν Ἀκτὶς ὁ Ἡλίου [καὶ] Ῥόδης. Ἡρόδοτος δευτέρᾳ. ἔστι καὶ Θρᾴκης. καὶ τῆς Ἀρωματοφόρου, ἀπὸ τῆς Αἰγυπτίας. καὶ δʹ ἐν Σάρδεσι. καὶ ἡ Κόρινθος Ἡλιούπολις ἐλέγετο, εἶτα Πάγος, καὶ οὕτως Ἐφύρη. ἔστι καὶ ἐν Φοινίκῃ. ὁ πολίτης Ἡλιοπολίτης.
Herodian
…ῃ, ἐλεύθερος γίνεται κἂν ξένος ᾖ». Ἑλληνόπολις πόλις Βιθυνίας. Ἀπολλόδωρος «Ἄτταλος ἐκ τῶν Ἑλληνίδων πόλεων οἰκήτορας συναγαγὼν ἔκτισε πόλιν καὶ ὠνόμασεν αὐτὴν Ἑλληνόπολιν». Ζυγόπολις παρὰ Τραπεζοῦντα. Στράβων δωδεκάτῃ. Ἡλιούπολις, πόλις Αἰγύπτου, ἣν ἔκτισεν Ἀκτὶς ὁ Ἡλίου καὶ Ῥόδης. Ἡρόδοτος δευτέρᾳ (c. 3). ἔστι καὶ Θρᾴκης. καὶ τῆς Ἀρωματοφόρου ἄποικος τῆς Αἰγυπτίας. καὶ δʹ ἐν Σάρδεσι. καὶ ἡ Κόρινθος Ἡλιούπολις ἐλέγετο· ἔστι καὶ ἐν Φοινίκῃ. Θεόπολις ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ. Κνωπούπολις· οὕτως ἐκαλεῖτο Ἐρυθραί πόλις Ἰώνων ἀπὸ Κνώπου. Καρόπολις πόλις Καρίας. Ἀλέξανδρος Καρικῶν π…

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