Λύζεια - Stephanos Ethnika

Λύζεια OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Λύζεια, πόλις Ἀκαρνανίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἀπὸ Λυζέως τινός. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λυζεύς καὶ Λύζεια.

Lyzeia: a city of Akarnania. Hekataios in the Europe. From a certain Lyzeus. The ethnonym Lyzeus and Lyzeia.

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	#94
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 420.11
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-26
Word count	13

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Εὐρώπῃ · FGrHist 1 F 111

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Λυζεία	Lyzeia · place · corrected · Q450546
Ἀκαρνανία	Acarnania · place · corrected · Q416070
Λυζεύς	Lyzeus · person
Λυζεύς	Lyzeus · people
Λυζαῖος	Lyzaios · people
Λύζεια	place · explicit · wikidata: Q450546 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	From a certain Lyzeus (i.e. the city is named after a man called Lyzeus).
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon (demonym) is 'Lyzeus' and 'Lyzaeos' (showing morphological formation of inhabitants' names from the place-name).

Links

Place links	Alyzeia \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1174.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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	γένος τό gloss:c746b76469e4485d	descent Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	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 1.279

char LCS 49 (67.1%) · word LCS 8 (61.5%)

Stephanos

Λύζεια, πόλις Ἀκαρνανίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἀπὸ Λυζέως τινός. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λυζεύς καὶ Λύζεια.

Herodian

Δευκαλιωνείας πρώτῳ. ἔστι καὶ τῆς Ἰταλίας. καὶ ἄλλη Ἀργολίδος ἡ καὶ Ἑρμιόνη. Λάμπεια ὄρος Ἀρκαδίας. Παρθένιος Ἀνθίππῃ. Λαμπέτεια πόλις Βρεττίας. Πολύβιος τρισκαιδεκάτῳ. Λύζεια πόλις Ἀκαρνανίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἀπὸ Λυζέως τινός. Λαμπώνεια πόλις Τρῳάδος. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Ἑλλάνικος δὲ Λαμπώνιον αὐτήν φησι. Πιτύεια· οὕτως Ἐπαφρόδιτος ὑφ´ Ὁμήρου (Β 829) Λάμψακον κληθῆναι διὰ τὸ πιτύων πλῆθος, Λαομεδόντειαν καλουμένην. Λαοδαμάντεια νῆσος ἐν Λιβύῃ. Ἀρ…