Λίμναι - Stephanos Ethnika

Λίμναι OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Entry #70
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 417.11 | Billerbeck: Λ70
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-26
Word count: 8
Translation blocked: Meineke's entry expands the Billerbeck excerpt: it retains the Hellespontine city reading but adds a second place in Attica where Dionysus was honored and inserts a Callimachus quotation. These are substantive additions (not merely orthographic).
Sources: Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus) FGrHist 1 F 164 [Εὐρώπῃ]
Entities: Λίμναι (Limnai (Limnae)) [place], Ἑλλήσποντος (Hellespont) [place], Σηστός (Sestos) [place]
Place: Limnaia | 📍 Map
Source: e9783110219630_i1141.jpg
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Λίμναι, πόλις ἐν Ἑλλησπόντῳ περὶ Σηστόν. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. καὶ ἕτερος τόπος τῆς Ἀττικῆς Λίμναι καλούμενος, ἔνθα ὁ Διόνυσος ἐτιμᾶτο. Καλλίμαχος “Λιμναίῳ δὲ χοροστάδας ἦγον ἑορτάς”.

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Herodian 1.326

char LCS 83 (56.8%) · word LCS 13 (52.0%)

Stephanos

Λίμναι, πόλις ἐν Ἑλλησπόντῳ περὶ Σηστόν. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. καὶ ἕτερος τόπος τῆς Ἀττικῆς Λίμναι καλούμενος, ἔνθα ὁ Διόνυσος ἐτιμᾶτο. Καλλίμαχος “Λιμναίῳ δὲ χοροστάδας ἦγον ἑορτάς”.

Herodian

…όλις Μακεδονίας. Ἡρόδοτος ἑβδόμῃ (c. 123). Ἐρατοσθένης δὲ Ἄχνας αὐτήν φησι. Φιλητᾶς δὲ ἄλλην φησὶ διὰ τοῦ 'α'. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα ἑῴα πόλις. λίμνη καὶ Λίμναι πόλις ἐν Ἑλλησπόντῳ, περὶ Σηστόν. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. καὶ ἕτερος τόπος Ἀττικῆς Λίμναι καλούμενος, ἔνθα ὁ Διόνυσος ἐτιμᾶτο. Καλλίμαχος «Λιμναίῳ δὲ χοροστάδας ἦγον ἑορτάς». Ὄννη ἐμπόριον τῆς εὐδαίμονος Ἀραβίας. ποίμνη. Βάτναι πόλις τῆς Ὀσροήνης. τὸ δὲ ψεδνός ψεδνή τριγενές. τὸ δὲ πρυμνή ἐπίθετον, ὅταν δὲ ἰδίως