Λαιστρυγόνες

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

Λαιστρυγόνες OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
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Entry #18
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 406.15 | Billerbeck: Λ18
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-25
Word count: 17
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Θουκυδίδης (Thucydides) (6,2,1)
Entities: Λαιστρυγόνες (Laestrygonians) [people], Κυκλῶπες (Cyclopes) [people], Σικελία (Sicily) [place], Λαιστρυγονίς (Laestrygonis (variant)) [people], Λαιστρυγόνιος (Laestrygonios (variant)) [people]
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Λαιστρυγόνες, πρῶτοι μετὰ Κυκλώπων ᾤκησαν Σικελίαν. Θουκυδίδης ἕκτῃ. λέγεται καὶ Λαιστρυγονίς, καὶ Λαιστρυγόνιος [καὶ] οὐδετέρως καὶ θηλυκῶς.
Laestrygones: they were the first, after the Cyclopes, to inhabit Sicily. Thucydides, book 6. The forms *Laestrygonis* and *Laestrygonios* are also used, both in the neuter and in the feminine.

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