Λουσοί - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #90
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 419.17 | Billerbeck: Λ90
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-26
Word count: 20
AI prompt: v1
Entities: Λούσοι (Lousoi (town in Arcadia)) [place], Ἀρκαδία (Arcadia) [place], Μελάμπους (Melampus) [person], Προῖτος (Proitos) [person], Λούσιος (Lousios (a citizen of Lousoi)) [people], Λουσεύς (Louseus (demonym)) [people], Λουσιάτης (Lousiates (demonym)) [people]
Etymologies: Folk Etymology Narrative: Lousoi: a city of Arcadia, where Melampus washed the daughters of Proetus and ended their madness. The citizen is called Lousios and Louseus and Lousiates.
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Λουσοί, πόλις Ἀρκαδίας, ὅπου Μελάμπους ἔλουσε τὰς Προίτου θυγατέρας καὶ ἔπαυσε τῆς μανίας. ὁ πολίτης Λούσιος καὶ Λουσεύς καὶ Λουσιάτης.

Lusoi: a city of Arcadia, where Melampus bathed the daughters of Proitos and cured them of their madness. The citizen (ethnic) is Lousios, also Louseus and Lousiates.

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Herodian 1.206

char LCS 75 (67.0%) · word LCS 13 (65.0%)

Stephanos

Λουσοί, πόλις Ἀρκαδίας, ὅπου Μελάμπους ἔλουσε τὰς Προίτου θυγατέρας καὶ ἔπαυσε τῆς μανίας. ὁ πολίτης Λούσιος καὶ Λουσεύς καὶ Λουσιάτης.

Herodian

…ὼ προσορμίζουσαν ἐκεῖσε παῖσαι καὶ προσεγγίσαι. Παισός καὶ ἐν πλεονασμῷ τοῦ 'α' Ἀπαισός ὥσπερ Ἄταρνα πόλις καὶ Τάρνα. Ὅμηρος «ὃς ἐκ Τάρνης ἐριβώλακος» (Il. Ε 44). ἔστι καὶ Δαυνίας πόλις Παισός κατ´ Ἀργύριππα. Λουσός καὶ Λουσοί πόλις Ἀρκαδίας, ὅπου Μελάμπους ἔλουσε τὰς Προίτου θυγατέρας καὶ ἔπαυσε τῆς μανίας. λέγεται δὲ καὶ Λοῦσα οὐδετέρως. Πραισός πόλις. Μαυσός κώμη Κορίνθου. Θεόπομπος τριακοστῷ δευτέρῳ. καὶ τὰ ἐπιθετικὰ δέ,