Δαμασκός

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Δαμασκός, πόλις Συρίας, μεσόγειος, ὕπερθε Φοινίκης, παρὰ τὸν Βαρδίνην ποταμόν. ὠνομάσθη δὲ ὅτι εἷς τῶν Γιγάντων Ἀσκὸς ὄνομα ἅμα Λυκούργῳ δήσας τὸν Διόνυσον ἔρριψεν εἰς τὸν ποταμόν, ὃν λύσας Ἑρμῆς τὸν Ἀσκὸν τοῦ δέρματος ἐγύμνωσεν, ὅθεν πρὸς οἶνον ἐπιτήδειον τὸ δέρμα. οἱ δὲ ὅτι Δαμασκὸς Ἑρμοῦ παῖς καὶ νύμφης Ἁλιμήδης ἐξ Ἀρκαδίας εἰς Συρίαν ἦλθε καὶ πόλιν ὁμώνυμον ἔκτισεν. ἄλλοι δὲ ὅτι Δαμασκὸς ἐφατίζετο ἀνήρ, Διονύσου δὲ τὴν Συρίαν ἀμπελόφυτον ποιήσαντος πελέκει ταῦτα ἔκοπτε, Διόνυσος δὲ ὀργισθεὶς ἐδίωξε καὶ ἐξέδειρεν ..... ἐπράχθη Δαρμασκός ..... καὶ οὕτω Δαμασκός κατὰ παραφθοράν. ὁ πολίτης Δαμασκηνός καὶ ἡ χώρα καὶ ἡ πόλις Δαμασκηνή.

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Text Details

Entry	#10
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 217.7 · Billerbeck Δ10
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-18
Word count	97

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Δαμασκός	Damascus · place · corrected · Q55777963
Συρία	Syria · place · corrected · Q13415123
Φοινίκη	Phoenicia · place · corrected · Q41642
Ἰορδάνης	Jordan (river) · place
Γίγαντες	Giants · other
Ἀσκός	Askos · person
Λυκοῦργος	Lycurgus · person · corrected · Q270117
Διόνυσος	Dionysus · deity · corrected · Q41680
Ἑρμῆς	Hermes · deity · corrected · Q41484
Ἁλιμήδης	Halimēdēs (nymph) · person · corrected · Q3611796
Ἀρκαδία	Arcadia · place · corrected · Q12898802
Δαμασκός	Darmaskos (variant/corruption of Damascus) · place · corrected · Q55777963
Δαμασκηνός	Damascene (citizen) · people
Δαμασκηνή	Damascene (the land/city) · place
Damaskos (city in Syria)	place · city · Syria · explicit · wikidata: Q3766 · candidate

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Folk Etymology Narrative	It was said to have been named because one of the Giants named Askos, having bound Dionysus together with Lykourgos, threw him into the river; Hermes cut off the skin (askos) and stripped it, whence the skin useful for wine (askos).
Eponym Person	Others say that Damaskos, son of Hermes and the nymph Halimedē, came from Arcadia into Syria and founded a city of the same name.
Folk Etymology Narrative	Others that Damaskos was a boastful man; when Dionysus made Syria vine-bearing he cut these things with a pick, Dionysus angry pursued and beat him... it became Darmaskos and thus Damaskos by corruption.
Unclear Metalinguistic	The inhabitant is Damaskēnós and the region and city Damaskēnē.

Links

Place links	Damascus \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_039.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ὁμωνύμως/ὁμώνυμος -ον gloss:0fbae2a88778c0fa	homonymous, having the same name Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	πολίτης ὁ gloss:1c7dda400d7265cb	citizen Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences

Text Details

Mentioned Entities

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Translation Guidance

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