Λύγκος - Stephanos Ethnika

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Λύγκος, πόλις Ἠπείρου. Στράβων ἑβδόμῃ. ἐκλήθη ἀπὸ Λυγκέως. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λυγκησταί. τὸ θηλυκὸν Λυγκηστίς. λέγεται καὶ Λύγκιος ὡς Λύττιος. λέγεται καὶ Λυγκεύς.

Lynkos: a city of Epeiros. Strabo in the seventh. It was named from Lynkeus. The ethnonym Lynkestai. The feminine Lynkestis. Also said Lynkios as 'Lyttios'. Also said Lynkeus.

External translation supplied by Brady Kiesling; reported Claude Fable 5.5 translation. Credit: Brady Kiesling and the Stephanos project (Greg Baker, Gabriel Jower, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling). Not individually verified; exact Greek input not supplied.

Text Details

Entry	#91
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 420.3
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-26
Word count	22

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	ζ (7,7,8 [C 326,30])

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Λύγκος	Lygkos · place · corrected · Q1247667
Ἤπειρος	Epirus · place · corrected · Q565751
Λυγκεύς	Lygkeus · person
Λυγκῆσται	Lygkestai (ethnic) · people
Λυγκηστίς	Lygkestis (feminine ethnicon) · people
Λύγκιος	Lygkios · other
Λύττιος	Lyttios · other
Λυγκεύς	Lygkeus · person
Λύγκος	place · explicit · wikidata: Q1247667 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	It was called (named) after Lygkeus.
Unclear Metalinguistic	It is also said (to be) Lygkios, as (or like) Lyttios (a variant form).
Unclear Metalinguistic	It is also called Lygkeus (variant form).
Unclear Metalinguistic	The ethnic (demonym) is Lygkestai; the feminine form is Lygkestis.

Links

Place links	Lynkestis \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1173.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	καλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται/ἐκλήθη (ἀπο...) gloss:ef7a95cd709173ed	is/used to be/is/was called/named after (+ ἀπο) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.148

char LCS 47 (37.3%) · word LCS 8 (36.4%)

Stephanos

Λύγκος, πόλις Ἠπείρου. Στράβων ἑβδόμῃ. ἐκλήθη ἀπὸ Λυγκέως. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λυγκησταί. τὸ θηλυκὸν Λυγκηστίς. λέγεται καὶ Λύγκιος ὡς Λύττιος. λέγεται καὶ Λυγκεύς.

Herodian

Τὰ εἰς 'κος' δισύλλαβα κύρια, εἰ ἔχοι τὴν πρὸ τέλους συλλαβὴν εἰς σύμφωνον καταλήγουσαν, βαρύνεται, Μάκκος, Ὄγκος τὸ κύριον. Λύγκος πόλις Ἠπείρου. Στράβων ἑβδόμῃ. ἐκλήθη ἀπὸ Λυγκέως. Φόρκος. Σύλκοι πόλις ἐν Σαρδοῖ, Καρχηδονίων κτίσμα. λέγεται καὶ Σόλκοι, ὡς Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἐν ἐπιτομῇ «ἀπὸ δὲ Καράλεως ἐπὶ Σόλκους». Τὰ εἰς 'κος' δισύλλαβα προσηγορικὰ μὴ παρασχηματιζόμενα εἰς θηλυκὸν γένος, εἰ ἔχοι τὴν πρ…