Θέστις - Stephanos Ethnika

Θέστις OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Entry #39
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 312.10 | Billerbeck: Θ38
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-11
Word count: 18
Entities: Θέστις (Thestis) [place], Ἄραβες (Arabs) [people], Λιβύη (Libya) [place], Θεστῖτης (Thestites (resident of Thestis)) [people], Κορνοῦτος (Kornoutos (Cornutus)) [person], Λιβύη (Libya) [place]
Etymologies: Unclear Metalinguistic: Thestis: a city of the Arabs; and another [city] of Libya.; Morphological Composition: The citizen of each [city] is called Θεστίτης (Thestites).; Unclear Metalinguistic: And from the Libyan, Cornutus, a philosopher, (as) Thestites speaking/commenting.
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Θέστις, πόλις Ἀράβων. καὶ ἄλλη Λιβύης. ὁ πολίτης ἑκατέρας Θεστίτης. [ἐκ δὲ τῆς Λιβυκῆς Κορνοῦτος φιλόσοφος Θεστίτης χρηματίζων.]

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Herodian 1.104

char LCS 30 (28.8%) · word LCS 6 (33.3%)

Stephanos

Θέστις, πόλις Ἀράβων. καὶ ἄλλη Λιβύης. ὁ πολίτης ἑκατέρας Θεστίτης. [ἐκ δὲ τῆς Λιβυκῆς Κορνοῦτος φιλόσοφος Θεστίτης χρηματίζων.]

Herodian

…σπάνια ὄντα τὰ μὲν βαρύνεται, Ἄττις, Ζήβυττις πόλις Λιβύης. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Ἀδράμυττις νῆσος ἐν τῇ Λυκίᾳ. τὰ δὲ ὀξύνεται, τριοττίς, νεοττίς. Τὰ εἰς 'στις' δισύλλαβα βαρύνεται, εἰ μὴ ὑποκοριστικώτερα εἴη, πίστις, μνῆστις. Θέστις πόλις Ἀράβων καὶ ἄλλη Λιβύης. τὸ μέντοι κιστίς ὀξύνεται ὡς ὑποκοριστικόν. τὸ δὲ Νεστίς ἡ χώρα ἀπὸ Νέστου, πόλεως καὶ ποταμοῦ Ἰλλυρίας, ἐθνικόν ἐστιν. Ἔτι τὰ εἰς 'στις' ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβάς, εἰ μὴ ἐπίθετα εἴη, προπαροξύνεται, βούβρωστις, ἄγρωστις, Αὔγω…