Ἡφαιστιάς - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ἡφαιστιάς, πόλις ἐν Λήμνῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἡφαιστιεύς. Χάραξ δ´ ἐν δεκάτῳ χρονικῶν φησιν ὅτι “Μυριναῖοι τῶν Πελασγικῶν ὑποσχέσεων οὐ φροντίσαντες ἀπέκλεισαν τῷ Μιλτιάδῃ τὰς πύλας, κἀκεῖνος πολιορκίᾳ παρεστήσατο αὐτούς. τῶν δ´ Ἡφαιστιέων τύραννος [Ἕρμων, τῶν Περς]ῶν φοβηθεὶς τὴν δύναμιν, ἔφη χαριζόμενος τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις φίλοις οὖσιν ἐμπεδοῦν τὰ ὁμολογηθέντα ὑπὸ τῶν Πελασγῶν, καὶ ἀμαχεὶ παρέδωκε τὴν πόλιν”.

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Text Details

Entry	#29
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 305.8
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-11
Word count	59

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Εὐρώπῃ · FGrHist 1 F 138b
Χάραξ (Charax)	Χρονικῶν · FGrHist 103 F 18

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἡφαιστία	Hephaistia · place · corrected · Q5731882
Λῆμνος	Lemnos · place · corrected · Q192483
Ἡφαιστιεύς	Hephaistian (ethnic) · people
Μυριναῖος	Myrinaeans (inhabitants of Myrina) · people
Πελασγοί	Pelasgians · people
Μιλτιάδης	Miltiades · person · corrected · Q210350
Ἔρμων	Ermon (name) · person
Πέρσες	Persians · people
Ἀθηναῖοι	Athenians · people
Ἡφαιστιεῖς	(inhabitants of Hephaistia) · people
Ἡφαιστιάς	place · explicit · wikidata: Q5731882 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	Hephaistia, a city on Lemnos. The ethnicon (demonym) is Ἡφαιστιεύς — indicating the place-name is formed from (or associated with) the god Hephaistos.

Links

Place links	Hephaistia \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_255.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	Χ (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:c22408ee90fd1a1e	*Translate as "X, in book Y of his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS 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 1.59

char LCS 35 (10.1%) · word LCS 6 (10.2%)

Stephanos

Ἡφαιστιάς, πόλις ἐν Λήμνῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἡφαιστιεύς. Χάραξ δ´ ἐν δεκάτῳ χρονικῶν φησιν ὅτι “Μυριναῖοι τῶν Πελασγικῶν ὑποσχέσεων οὐ φροντίσαντες ἀπέκλεισαν τῷ Μιλτιάδῃ τὰς πύλας, κἀκεῖνος πολιορκίᾳ παρεστήσατο αὐτούς. τῶν δ´ Ἡφαιστιέων τύραννος [Ἕρμ…

Herodian

…ιοπίας. δεκάτη Κύπρου. εἰσὶ καὶ δύο νησίδια πλησίον τῆς Λιβύης. ἔστι καὶ Ἀλεξανδρείας. Τελμισσιάς, ἄκρα Λυκίας, ὡς Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἐν δεκάτῳ γεωγραφουμένων. Βολογεσσιάς πόλις πρὸς τῷ Εὐφράτῃ ἐκ Βολογεσσοῦ βασιλέως ᾠκισμένη. Ἡφαιστιάς πόλις ἐν Λήμνῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Κεραστιάς καὶ Κεραστίς ἐκαλεῖτο ἡ Κύπρος ἀπὸ τοῦ πολλὰς ἄκρας ἔχειν. τὸ μέντοι μέγας καὶ λᾶας «λᾶας ἀναιδής» (Δ 521) συστέλλοντα τὸ 'α' ὅμως βαρύνονται, ἐπειδὴ οὐ διὰ τοῦ 'δος' κλίνονται. ἡμάρτηται δὲ τὸ μέγας περὶ τὴν…