Λαπίθη - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #42
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 412.9 | Billerbeck: Λ42
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-25
Word count: 40
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἐπαφρόδιτος (Epaphroditus) fr. 48 Braswell/Billerbeck = fr. 16 Lünzner [τοῖς Ὁμηρικοῖς]
Entities: Λαπίθη (Lapithē (city)) [place], Θεσσαλία (Thessaly) [place], Λαπίθος (Lapithos (eponymous founder)) [person], Περίφαντος (Periphantos (Periphan(t))) [person], Λαπίθαι (Lapiths) [people], Πισίδαι (Pisidians) [people], Ἴωνες (Ionians) [people], Θετταλοί (Thessalians) [people], Λαπίθαιον (Lapithaion (name of a mountain)) [place], Λακωνική (Laconia) [place]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: From Lapithos (son) of Periphas (i.e., named after the man Lapithos, son of Periphas).; Unclear Metalinguistic: The inhabitants called Lapithai—not from the city, but from the people/ethnic group (i.e., the name derives from an ethnic name rather than the polis).; Unclear Metalinguistic: For Lapithai is an ethnic group of Thessaly. There is also Lapithaion as the name of a mountain in Laconia (the same name appears applied to another place).
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Λαπίθη, πόλις Θεσσαλίας, ὡς Ἐπαφρόδιτος ἐν τοῖς Ὁμηρικοῖς, ἀπὸ Λαπίθου τοῦ Περίφαντος. οἱ οἰκήτορες Λαπίθαι, οὐκ ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεως, ἀλλ´ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἔθνους, ὡς Πισίδαι καὶ Ἴωνες καὶ Θετταλοί. Λαπίθαι γὰρ ἔθνος Θεσσαλίας. ἔστι καὶ Λαπίθαιον ὄνομα ὄρους τῆς Λακωνικῆς.

Lapithē: a city of Thessaly, as Epaphroditos says in his Homeric Studies, named from Lapithos son of Periphas. The inhabitants are called Lapithai, not from the city but from the ethnos, as (one says) Pisidai and Iōnes and Thessaloi. For the Lapithai are an ethnos of Thessaly. There is also (the name) Lapithaion as the name of a mountain in Laconia.

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char LCS 31 (14.8%) · word LCS 5 (12.5%)

Stephanos

…ίθη, πόλις Θεσσαλίας, ὡς Ἐπαφρόδιτος ἐν τοῖς Ὁμηρικοῖς, ἀπὸ Λαπίθου τοῦ Περίφαντος. οἱ οἰκήτορες Λαπίθαι, οὐκ ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεως, ἀλλ´ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἔθνους, ὡς Πισίδαι καὶ Ἴωνες καὶ Θετταλοί. Λαπίθαι γὰρ ἔθνος Θεσσαλίας. ἔστι καὶ Λαπίθαιον ὄνομα ὄρους τῆς Λακωνικῆς.

Herodian

…ονίδος φυλῆς. Παντικάπαιον πόλις μεγίστη, τῶν κατὰ Βόσπορον μητρόπολις. ᾠκίσθη δὲ παρὰ Αἰήτου παιδός, λαβόντος τὸν τόπον παρὰ Ἀγαήτου τοῦ Σκυθῶν βασιλέως καὶ καλέσαντος τὴν πόλιν ἀπὸ τοῦ παραρρέοντος ποταμοῦ Παντικάπου. Λαπίθαιον ὄνομα ὄρους τῆς Λακωνικῆς. Φοινίκαιον ὄρος Κορίνθου. Ἔφορος ἐννεακαιδεκάτῳ. Προστρόπαια πόλις Σικελίας. Τυμέναιον ὄρος περὶ Φρυγίαν. χωρὶς τοῦ Χαλαστραῖον νίτρον καὶ Ἠλακαταῖον ὄρος Θεσσαλίας καὶ Καναστραῖον ἄκρον Θρᾴκης καὶ Μακεδονίας, ὃ καὶ Κά…