Λάμια - Stephanos Ethnika

Λάμια OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

Entry #25
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 409.4 | Billerbeck: Λ25
OCR: unknown
Word count: 35
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Πολύβιος (Polybius) (9,29,2)
Entities: Θεσσαλία (Thessaly) [place], Μηλιεῖς (Melians) [people], Λάμιος (Lamios) [person], Ἡρακλῆς (Heracles) [deity], Λάμια (Lamia) [person], Τραχῖναι (Trachinians) [people], Κιλικία (Cilicia) [place], Λαμιεύς (Lamian (demonym)) [people], Λαμιαστός (Lamias(t) (demonym)) [people]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: But others say [the city is] from Lamios, son of Heracles.; Eponym Person: Others [say the city is] from Lamia, a woman.; Morphological Composition: The ethnicon is 'Λαμιεύς' and 'Λαμιαστός'.; Unclear Metalinguistic: There is also another [city] in Cilicia.; Unclear Metalinguistic: A city of Thessaly of the Malians, according to Polybius (9.29.2).
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Λάμια, πόλις Θεσσαλίας τῶν Μηλιέων, ὡς Πολύβιος. οἱ μὲν ἀπὸ Λάμου τοῦ Ἡρακλέους φασίν, οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ Λαμίας γυναικός, ἣ ἐβασίλευσε Τραχινίων. ἐν ᾗ καὶ Λαμιακὸς πόλεμος. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη Κιλικίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λαμιεῖς καὶ Λαμιῶται.

Lamia: a city of Thessaly, belonging to the Melians, as Polybius says. Some derive it from Lamios, son of Heracles; others from Lamia, a woman, or from one who had ruled over the Trachinians. In it too occurred the Lamian War. There is also another (Lamia) in Cilicia; its ethnic is Lamieus and Lamiastos.

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Herodian 1.248

char LCS 111 (62.7%) · word LCS 22 (61.1%)

Stephanos

Λάμια, πόλις Θεσσαλίας τῶν Μηλιέων, ὡς Πολύβιος. οἱ μὲν ἀπὸ Λάμου τοῦ Ἡρακλέους φασίν, οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ Λαμίας γυναικός, ἣ ἐβασίλευσε Τραχινίων. ἐν ᾗ καὶ Λαμιακὸς πόλεμος. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη Κιλικίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λαμιεῖς καὶ Λαμιῶται.

Herodian

…ία τὸ 'α' μακρὸν ἔχουσι. καὶ τὸ πότνια· ἔστι δὲ καὶ Πότνιαι πόλις Βοιωτίας. καὶ ὄμπνια, Πολύμνια, Ἰάμνια πολίχνιον Φοινίκης, Στράβων δὲ κώμην φησίν »ἀπὸ Ἰάμνου ἢ ὅτι ἰάμνους ἐκάλουν τοὺς καθύγρους καὶ τεθηλότας τόπους«. Λάμια πόλις Θεσσαλίας τῶν Μηλιέων, ὡς Πολύβιος, οἱ μὲν ἀπὸ Λάμου τοῦ Ἡρακλέους φασίν, οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ Λαμίας γυναικός, ἣ ἐβασίλευσε Τραχινίων· ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη Κιλικίας—προπαροξύνεται. Τὰ εἰς 'εια' ἀπὸ τῶν εἰς 'ευς' προπαροξύνεται, βασιλεύς βασίλεια, πολιεύς πολίεια, Πιτυεύς Πιτύεια, Ἀλαλκομενεύς Ἀλαλκομένεια, ἱερεύς ἱέρεια. τοῦτο δὲ οἱ Ἀττικοὶ ἐκτείνοντες τὸ 'α' π…