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Entry #151
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: - | Billerbeck: Δ151
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-22
Word count: 280
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Καλλίμαχος (Callimachus) Cer. 24 [ὕμνοις (Cer.)], Φερεκύδης (Pherecydes) FGrHist 3 F 172, Φερεκύδης (Pherecydes), Ἀρχῖνος (Archinos) FGrHist 604 F 3, Μνασέας (Mnaseas) fr. 27 Cappelletto, Σοφοκλῆς (Sophocles) fr. 380 Radt; fr. 492 Radt [Λαρισαίοις; Πηλεῖ (frs.)], Λαρισαῖοι (the Larisaeans (work/title)) fr. 380 Radt [Λαρισαίοις], Ῥιανός (Rhianus) FGrHist 265 F 39 = fr. 50 Powell [Μεσσηνιακῶν], Μεσσηνιακά (Messeniaca (work)) FGrHist 265 F 39 = fr. 50 Powell [Μεσσηνιακῶν], Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Ῥόδιος (Apollonius of Rhodes) fr. 10 Powell [Ῥόδου κτίσει], Ῥόδιος κτίσις (On the Founding of Rhodes (work)) fr. 10 Powell, Ἀντίμαχος (Antimachus) fr. 85 Matthews = fr. 72 Wyss [Λύδης (β)], Λύδη (Lydia (work/book)), Διονύσιος (Dionysius) fr. 27 Livrea = fr. 15a Heitsch [α Γιγαντιάδος], Γιγαντιάς / Γιγαντιάς (work) (Gigantias (the Gigantomachy work)), Ὧρος (Horos (author)) Reitzenstein, Gesch. p. 316 [Ἐθνικοῖς], Ἐθνικά (Ethnica) (Ethnica (work)), Ἡσίοδος (Hesiod) fr. 66 Most = fr. 65 Merkelbach/West, Ἡρωδιανός (Herodianus) (1,214,19–20)
Entities: Δώτιον (Dotium (place)) [place], Θεσσαλία (Thessaly) [place], Κνιδῖοι (Cnidians) [people], Κνιδία (Cnidia) [place], Δώτιον ((gen. of) Dotium / Dotian (place form)) [place], Ἐλάτης / Ἐλάτος (Elatus) [person], Δώτος (Dotos) [person], Ἀστέριος (Asterios) [person], Ἀμφικτυών (Amphictyon) [person], Φθία (Phthia (region)) [place], Νεών (Neon) [person], Ἕλλην (Hellen (eponymous ancestor)) [person], Πελασγός (Pelasgus) [person], Δωτιεύς (Dotian (inhabitant)) [people], Ἔλατος (Elatos) [person], Λήμνος / Λημνῖαι (Lemnian (Lemnos)) [place], Λαπίθης (Lapith (member of Lapiths)) [people], Κόρωνος (Koronos) [person], Δωτηίς (Dotian (fem./place-form)) [place], Νικοτελεία (Nicoteleia (female name)) [person], Αἱμονιῆες (Aimoniae (?) (ethnic group)) [people], Σπερχειός (Spercheios (river)) [place], Δώτιον ((gen.) of Dotium (place variant)) [place], Δώριον (Dorion / Dōrion (place variant)) [place], Θάμυρις (Thamyris (?)) [person], Καλχηδών (Chalcedon) [place], Καρχηδών (Carthage) [place], Λιβύη (Libya) [place], Ἄδμητος (Admetus) [person]
Etymologies: Place Transfer: where the Cnidians settled, whose region is called Knidia.; Eponym Person: it was called from Dotia (of) Elatus.; Eponym Person: Ferekydes says (it is) from Dotios, son of Asterius, and Amphictyonis of Phthia.; Eponym Person: Archinus says (it is) from Dotus, son of Neonus the Hellene.; Eponym Person: Mnaseas says (it is) from Dotus the Pelasgian.; Eponym Person: Dotion (is) from Dotus, son of the Pelasgian, as Herodian says: 'Dōtos the Pelasgian, from whom the Dotion plain.'; Morphological Composition: For not like Chalcedon and Carthage and the like: one (form) is with lambda around the Pontus, the other with rho before Libya ... one (form) through r (Δώριον) and the other through t (Δώτιον).
Place: Dotion 2 (Pauly-Wissowa)
Source: vol2_149.jpg, vol2_151.jpg, vol2_153.jpg
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Δώτιον, πόλις Θεσσαλίας, ὅπου μετῴκησαν οἱ Κνίδιοι, ὧν ἡ χώρα Κνιδία. Καλλίμαχος ἐν τοῖς ὕμνοις “οὔπω τὰν Κνιδίαν, ἔτι Δώτιον ἱρὸν ἔναιον”. ἐκλήθη δὲ ἀπὸ Δωτίας τῆς Ἐλάτου. Φερεκύδης δὲ ἀπὸ Δώτιος τοῦ Ἀστερίου καὶ Ἀμφικτυόνης τῆς Φθίου. ὡς δὲ Ἀρχῖνος ἀπὸ Δώτου τοῦ Νεώνου τοῦ Ἕλληνος. Μνασέας δέ “ἀπὸ Δώτου τοῦ Πελασγοῦ. ἔστι δὲ τὸ πεδίον αὐτὸ καθ´ ἑαυτὸ ἰδίοις ὄρεσι περιεχόμενον”. ὁ πολίτης Δωτιεύς. Σοφοκλῆς Λαρισαίοις “καί μοι τρίτον ῥίπτοντι Δωτιεὺς ἀνὴρ ἀγχοῦ προσῆψεν Ἔλατος ἐν δισκήματι”. καὶ ἐν Λημνίαις προτέραις “Φερητίδης τ´ Ἄδμητος ἠδ´ ὁ Δωτιεὺς Λαπίθης Κόρωνος”. τὸ θηλυκὸν Δωτηίς. Ῥιανὸς ἐν δʹ Μεσσηνιακῶν “αὐδὴν εἰσάμενος Δωτηίδι Νικοτελείῃ”. καὶ Δωτιάς, ὡς Ἰλιάς τοῦ Ἰλιεύς. Σοφοκλῆς ἐν Πηλεῖ “βασιλεὺς χώρας τῆς Δωτιάδος”. καὶ Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Ῥόδιος ἐν Ῥόδου κτίσει “ὅσσα τε γαίης ἔργα τε Δωτιάδος πρότεροι κάμον Αἱμονιῆες”. καὶ Ἀντίμαχος ἐν βʹ Λύδης “φεύγοντας γαίης ἔκτοθι Δωτιάδος”. καὶ οὐδέτερον Δώτιον, Διονύσιος ἐν αʹ Γιγαντιάδος “καὶ κελάδων Σπερχειός, ἔχουσι δὲ Δώτια τέμπεα”. καὶ τὸ ἑνικὸν ἐν τῷ βʹ “καὶ κενεὸν βρόντησε λέβης ἀνὰ Δώτιον Ἄργος”. ἐκλήθη δὲ Δώτιον ἀπὸ Δώτου τοῦ Πελασγοῦ παιδός, ὡς Ἡρωδιανὸς ἐν ηʹ “Δῶτος ὁ Πελασγοῦ, ἀφ´ οὗ τὸ Δώτιον πεδίον”. ἐκ περιττοῦ τοίνυν Ὦρος ἐν τοῖς ἐθνικοῖς τῇδε γράφει “καὶ τὰ περὶ Θάμυριν ἐν Δωρίῳ παριστοροῦντος τοῦ ποιητοῦ, πάλιν Ἡσίοδος Δωτίῳ ἐν πεδίῳ φάσκει αὐτὸν τετυφλῶσθαι”. συντάσσει γὰρ τοῦτο τοῖς διχογραφουμένοις πρωτοτύποις τῶν ἐθνικῶν. ἐπάγει γοῦν “οὐ γὰρ ὡς ἡ Καλχηδών καὶ Καρχηδών καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα λέγεται. ἡ μὲν γὰρ διὰ τοῦ « λ » περὶ τὸν Πόντον, ἡ δὲ διὰ τοῦ « ρ » πρὸ τῆς Λιβύης”. ἡμεῖς δὲ προὔφθημεν δείξαντες διὰ πολλῶν μαρτυριῶν ἕτερον [τὸ] διὰ τοῦ « ρ » Δώριον καὶ ἕτερον τὸ διὰ τοῦ « τ » Δώτιον.

Dōtion: a city of Thessaly, to which the Knidians migrated; their district is called Knidia. Callimachus in the Hymns (to Demeter 24): “not yet had I reached Knidia; I still dwelt in sacred Dōtion.” It was so named from Dōtia, daughter of Elatos, Elatous, Ellatus">Elatus. Pherecydes (FGrHist 3 F 172), however, derives it from Dōtios son of Asterius and Amphictyonê daughter of Phthius; but according to Archinus (FGrHist 604 F 3), from Dōtos son of Neōn son of Hellen. Mnasēas (fr. 27 Cappelletto) derives it from Dōtos son of Pelasgus. The plain itself is enclosed on all sides by its own mountains. The citizen is called Dōtieus. Sophocles in the Larisaeans (fr. 380 Radt): “and as I made my third cast, a Dōtiean man close by struck Elatus in the discus-throw.” And in the earlier Lemniae (fr. 386 Radt): “Pherētidae Admetus too, and the Dōtiean, the Lapith Corōnus.” The feminine is Dōtēis. Rhianus in book 4 of the Messenian poems (FGrHist 265 F 39 = fr. 50 Powell): “having recognized the voice of the Dōtēis Nikoteleia.” Also Dōtias, as ‘Ilias’ (Trojan woman) is formed from ‘Ilieus’ (a man of Ilium). Sophocles in Peleus (fr. 492 Radt): “king of the land of Dōtias.” So too Apollonius Rhodius in the Foundation of Rhodes (fr. 10 Powell): “all the deeds of the land of Dōtias that the men of Haemonia of old accomplished.” And Antimachus in book 2 of the Lydê (fr. 85 Matthews = fr. 72 Wyss): “fleeing beyond the land of Dōtias.” The neuter is Dōtion: Dionysius in book 1 of the Gigantias (fr. 27 Livrea = fr. 15a Heitsch): “and the loudly-sounding Spercheius; and they possess the Dōtian glens.” And the singular in book 2 (fr. 29 Livrea = fr. 15b Heitsch): “and an empty cauldron thundered throughout the bright Dōtion.” It was called Dōtion from Dōtos, son of Pelasgus, as Herodian says in book 8 (1.214.19–20): “Dōtos son of Pelasgus, from whom (is named) the Dōtion plain.”

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Herodian 1.84

char LCS 57 (4.5%) · word LCS 9 (4.1%)

Stephanos

…περιεχόμενον”. ὁ πολίτης Δωτιεύς. Σοφοκλῆς Λαρισαίοις “καί μοι τρίτον ῥίπτοντι Δωτιεὺς ἀνὴρ ἀγχοῦ προσῆψεν Ἔλατος ἐν δισκήματι”. καὶ ἐν Λημνίαις προτέραις “Φερητίδης τ´ Ἄδμητος ἠδ´ ὁ Δωτιεὺς Λαπίθης Κόρωνος”. τὸ θηλυκὸν Δωτηίς. Ῥιανὸς ἐν δʹ Μεσσηνιακῶν “αὐδὴν εἰσάμενος Δωτηίδι Νικοτελείῃ”. καὶ Δωτιάς, ὡς Ἰλιάς τοῦ Ἰλιεύς. Σοφοκλῆς ἐν Πηλεῖ “βασιλεὺς χώρας τῆς Δωτιάδος”. καὶ Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Ῥόδιος ἐν Ῥόδου κτίσει “ὅσσα τε γαίης ἔργα τε Δωτιάδος πρότεροι κάμον Αἱμονιῆες”. καὶ Ἀντίμαχος ἐν βʹ Λύδης “φεύγοντας…

Herodian

…, Γολγηΐς, Μινυηΐς, Ῥοιτηΐς, Γρυνηΐς, Θυνηΐς, Δολοπηΐς ἡ χώρα τῶν Δολόπων, Λελεγηΐς. οὕτω πρῶτον Μίλητος ἐκαλεῖτο ἀπὸ τῶν ἐνοικούντων Λελέγων, ὡς Δίδυμος ἐν συμποσιακοῖς. Λιλυβηΐς, Λυκτηΐς, Δραγγηΐς, Ταμυνηΐς, Δρυοπηΐς, Δωτηΐς. Ῥιανὸς ἐν δʹ Μεσσηνιακῶν »αὐδὴν εἰσάμενος Δωτηΐδι Νικοτελείῃ«. Μελανηΐς· οὕτως ἐκαλεῖτο Ἐρέτρια ἀπὸ Μελανέως τοῦ Εὐρύτου πατρός. Δρυηΐς, Τριοπηΐς, Μακριηΐς, Ὑλληΐς, Μεγαρηΐς, Φυλληΐς, Φιλυρηΐς πλεονασμῷ τοῦ 'η' παρὰ τὸ Φιλυρίς, Πλατηΐς νῆσος παρὰ τῇ Λυκίᾳ. Ἐπειΐς, Τηλεβοΐς μοῖρα …

Herodian 1.214

char LCS 33 (3.8%) · word LCS 8 (4.5%)

Stephanos

…τιον, Διονύσιος ἐν αʹ Γιγαντιάδος “καὶ κελάδων Σπερχειός, ἔχουσι δὲ Δώτια τέμπεα”. καὶ τὸ ἑνικὸν ἐν τῷ βʹ “καὶ κενεὸν βρόντησε λέβης ἀνὰ Δώτιον Ἄργος”. ἐκλήθη δὲ Δώτιον ἀπὸ Δώτου τοῦ Πελασγοῦ παιδός, ὡς Ἡρωδιανὸς ἐν ηʹ “Δῶτος ὁ Πελασγοῦ, ἀφ´ οὗ τὸ Δώτιον πεδίον”. ἐκ περιττοῦ τοίνυν Ὦρος ἐν τοῖς ἐθνικοῖς τῇδε γράφει “καὶ τὰ περὶ Θάμυριν ἐν Δωρίῳ παριστοροῦντος τοῦ ποιητοῦ, πάλιν Ἡσίοδος Δωτίῳ ἐν πεδίῳ φάσκει αὐτὸν τετυφλῶσθαι”. συντάσσει γὰρ τοῦτο τοῖς διχογραφουμένοις πρωτοτύποις …

Herodian

…του—ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ καὶ Βουτώ, ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα Γεδρωσίας. καὶ τὸ Παιτός ἐθνικὸν ὡς καὶ τὸ Ῥαιτός. ἔστι δὲ Τυρρηνικὸν ἔθνος. Τὰ εἰς 'τος' δισύλλαβα παραληγόμενα ἑνὶ τῶν φύσει μακρῶν κύρια ὄντα βαρύνεται, Κλῆτος ὄνομα ποταμοῦ. Δῶτος ὁ Πελασγοῦ, ἀφ´ οὗ τὸ Δώτιον πεδίον. ἔστι καὶ ὄνομα αὐλητοῦ. Πρῶτος. Ὦτος