Λύκαια - Stephanos Ethnika

Λύκαια OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Entry #95
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 420.13 | Billerbeck: Λ95
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-26
Word count: 23
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Θεόπομπος (Theopompus) FGrHist 115 F 244, Μενέλαος (Menelaus) FGrHist 384 F 5
Entities: Λύκαια (Lycaea (Lykaia)) [place], Ἀρκαδία (Arcadia) [place], Λύκαιθα (Lykaitha) [place], Λυκαῖος (Lycaeus / Lykaeus) [deity], Λύκειον (Lyceion (Lyceum)) [place], Λύκειος (Lycean / Lycaean (epithet)) [deity], Ἀπόλλων (Apollo) [deity]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: 'the inhabitant Lykaios' (an eponymous inhabitant or founder named Lykaios); Unclear Metalinguistic: 'according to Menelaus ... Lykai(th)a' (a variant name reported by Menelaus); Morphological Composition: 'and Lykeion the gymnasium and Lykeios (Apollo)' (derivative forms/epithet formed from the place-name)
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Λύκαια, πόλις Ἀρκαδίας. Θεόπομπος πεντηκοστῷ ἕκτῳ. παρὰ δὲ Μενελάῳ Λύκαιθα μετὰ τοῦ « θ ». ὁ οἰκήτωρ Λυκαῖος. [καὶ Λύκειον τὸ γυμνάσιον καὶ Λύκειος ὁ Ἀπόλλων.]

Lykaia: a city of Arcadia. Theopompos, book 56. But in Menelaos it is Lykaitha, with theta. The inhabitant is Lykaîos. {Also Lykeion, the gymnasium, and Lykeios, Apollo.}

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Herodian 1.272

char LCS 70 (56.5%) · word LCS 13 (54.2%)

Stephanos

Λύκαια, πόλις Ἀρκαδίας. Θεόπομπος πεντηκοστῷ ἕκτῳ. παρὰ δὲ Μενελάῳ Λύκαιθα μετὰ τοῦ « θ ». ὁ οἰκήτωρ Λυκαῖος. [καὶ Λύκειον τὸ γυμνάσιον καὶ Λύκειος ὁ Ἀπόλλων.]

Herodian

…σαν ἑτοίμῳ. καὶ ἄλλοι οὕτως. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Ἀρκαδίας, ἣ ἐλέγετο Σολογοργός. Ἡραία δὲ καλεῖται ἡ ἐλάττων τῶν τριῶν πόλεων Σικελίας, αἳ Ὕβλαι λέγονται. Κάθαια πόλις Ἰνδική. Κυναίθαια πόλις Ἀρκαδίας, ἣ καὶ Κύναιθα λέγεται. Λύκαια πόλις Ἀρκαδίας. Θεόπομπος πεντηκοστῷ ἕκτῳ. παρὰ δὲ Μενελάῳ Λύκαιθα μετὰ τοῦ 'θ'. Μάργαια πόλις Ἠλείας. Μελίταια πόλις Θεσσαλίας. Ἀλέξανδρος Ἀσίᾳ. Θεόπομπος δὲ Μελίτειαν αὐτήν φησιν. καὶ Μελίτεια Φίλων γράφει. Νίναια πόλις Οἰνωτρῶν. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Νίσαια ἐπίνειον Μεγαρίδος. καὶ αὐτὴ ἡ Μεγαρίς. ἀπ…