Λῆμνος - Stephanos Ethnika

Λῆμνος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

Λῆμνος, νῆσος πρὸς τῇ Θρᾴκῃ, δύο πόλεις ἔχουσα, Ἡφαιστίαν καὶ Μύριναν, ὡς Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἀπὸ τῆς μεγάλης λεγομένης θεοῦ, ἣν Λῆμνόν φασι· ταύτῃ δὲ καὶ παρθένους θύεσθαι. ᾠκίσθη δὲ πρῶτον ὑπὸ Θρᾳκῶν, οἳ Σίντιες ἐκαλοῦντο, ὡς Στράβων. οἱ δ´ αὐτοὶ οὗτοι καὶ Σαπαῖοι. ὁ οἰκήτωρ Λήμνιος καὶ Λημνικός κτητικόν.

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Text Details

Entry	#46
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 413.8 · Billerbeck Λ46
OCR	unknown
Word count	50

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Εὐρήμπη · FGrHist 1 F 138a
Στράβων (Strabo)	12,3,20 [C 549,31]

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Λῆμνος	Lemnos · place · corrected · Q192483
Θρᾴκη	Thrace · place · corrected · Q41741
Ἡφαιστία	Hephaistia · place · corrected · Q5731882
Μύρινα	Myrina · place · corrected · Q2310605
Λήμνιοι	Lemnians · people
Θρᾷκες	Thracians · people
Σίντιοι	Sindii (Sindians) · people
Σαπταῖοι	Saptaii · people
Λήμνιος	Lemnian (as eponym/inhabitant) · person
Λῆμνος	place · explicit · wikidata: Q192483 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	from the goddess called the Great
Eponym Person	or, they say, from the Lemnians
Morphological Composition	the inhabitant (demonym) is ‘Λήμνιος’ and the possessive/adjectival form is ‘Λημνικός’

Links

Place links	Lemnos \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Review	Open review page

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.174

char LCS 22 (9.1%) · word LCS 5 (10.2%)

Stephanos

Λῆμνος, νῆσος πρὸς τῇ Θρᾴκῃ, δύο πόλεις ἔχουσα, Ἡφαιστίαν καὶ Μύριναν, ὡς Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἀπὸ τῆς μεγάλης λεγομένης θεοῦ, ἣν Λῆμνόν φασι· ταύτῃ δὲ καὶ παρθένους θύεσθαι. ᾠκίσθη δὲ πρῶτον ὑπὸ Θρᾳκῶν, οἳ Σίντιες ἐκαλοῦντο, ὡς Στράβων. οἱ δ´ αὐτοὶ ο…

Herodian

…ι, ὕμνος, σκύμνος, Τύμνος πόλις Καρίας. τριγενῆ δὲ ὀξύνεται, γυμνός, σεμνός, στυμνός ὁ σκληρός, πρυμνός. * Τὰ εἰς 'μνος' δισύλλαβα ἔχοντα τὴν πρὸ τέλους φύσει μακρὰν βαρύνεται, Κρῶμνος ὁ Λυκάονος καὶ πόλις Πελοποννήσου, Λῆμνος νῆσος πρὸς τῇ Θρᾴκῃ, Τῆμνος πόλις τῆς Αἰολίδος. Τὰ εἰς 'μνος' ὑπερδισύλλαβα κύρια ἢ προσηγορικὰ μὴ ἔχοντα ἴδια θηλυκὰ προπαροξύνεται, Ἄμυμνος ἔθνος Ἠπειρωτικόν, Λύκαμνος, Ἐπίδαμνος πόλις Ἰλλυρίας ἀπὸ Ἐπιδάμνου, Αἴσυμνος. Ἴαμνος, Λεπέτυμνος…