Λυδία - Stephanos Ethnika

Λυδία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Λυδία, ἡ χώρα. Ξάνθος ἐν Λυδιακῶν πρώτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λυδός καὶ Λυδαί.

Lydia: the country. Xanthos in book 1 of his Lydiaka. The ethnonym is 'Lydos' and 'Lydai'.

Text Details

Entry	#93
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 420.9 · Billerbeck Λ93
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-26
Word count	12
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Λυδία	Lydia · place
Ξάνθος	Xanthus · place
Λυδός	Lydian (ethnic) · people
Λυδαί	Lydai / the Lydians (ethnic) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	Lydia: the country/region.
Unclear Metalinguistic	Xanthus (author) in his 'Lydiaca' (reference to Xanthus of Lydia).
Unclear Metalinguistic	the ethnicon (demonym) 'Lydos' and 'Lydae' (forms of the name for inhabitants).

Links

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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.288

char LCS 31 (58.5%) · word LCS 7 (58.3%)

Stephanos

Λυδία, ἡ χώρα. Ξάνθος ἐν Λυδιακῶν πρώτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λυδός καὶ Λυδαί.

Herodian

…λέγεται καὶ Κανθήλη. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Κανταβρία χώρα. Στράβων τρίτῃ. Καρπηΐα· οὕτως τινὲς Κάλπην πόλιν Βιθυνίας φασίν. Κεκροπία χώρα. Κορησσία πολίχνιον τῆς Κέω καὶ ἐπίνειον. Κωρυκία ἀκρωτήριον Κρήτης καὶ λιμὴν Αἰθιοπίας. Λυδία ἡ χώρα. Ξάνθος ἐν Λυδιακῶν πρώτῳ. Λυκία ἡ χώρα ἀπὸ Λύκου τοῦ Πανδίονος· ἔστι καὶ Λυκία ἡ πρὸς Κιλικίαν, ἧς ἦρχε Σαρπηδών. Λυρνατία