Λυταί - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #115
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 423.12 | Billerbeck: Λ115
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-26
Word count: 16
AI prompt: v1
Entities: Λύται (Lutai) [place], Θεσσαλία (Thessaly) [place], Τέμπη (Tempe) [place], Ποσειδῶν (Poseidon) [deity]
Etymologies: Folk Etymology Narrative: because (from the fact) that Poseidon loosened (opened) the Tempe and scattered the water from the Flood
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Λυταί, χωρίον Θεσσαλίας, διὰ τὸ λῦσαι τὰ Τέμπη Ποσειδῶνα καὶ σκεδάσαι τὸ ἀπὸ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ ὕδωρ.

Lytaí: a village (kōrion) of Thessaly, so called because Poseidon ‘loosed’ the Tempe, and dispersed the water from the flood.

Herodian overlaps

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Herodian 1.343

char LCS 80 (100.0%) · word LCS 16 (100.0%)

Stephanos

Λυταί, χωρίον Θεσσαλίας, διὰ τὸ λῦσαι τὰ Τέμπη Ποσειδῶνα καὶ σκεδάσαι τὸ ἀπὸ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ ὕδωρ.

Herodian

…η' πρὸ τέλους ἔχοντα τὸ 'υ' ὀξύνεται, ἀϋτή ἡ βοή, πινυτή τὸ ἐπίθετον »μήτηρ πινυτή« (Od. υ 131), Πινυτή δὲ καὶ τὸ κύριον. τὸ δὲ προσηγορικὸν εἰσὶν οἳ παροξύνουσιν, Ἀρίσταρχος δὲ ὀξύνει καὶ ἐπεκράτησεν οὕτως ἡ παράδοσις. Λυταί χωρίον Θεσσαλίας διὰ τὸ λῦσαι τὰ Τέμπη Ποσειδῶνα καὶ σκεδάσαι τὸ ἀπὸ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ ὕδωρ. τὸ δὲ Ἀφύτη πόλις πρὸς τῇ Παλλήνῃ Θρᾴκης, ἣ καὶ Ἄφυτις καὶ Ἄφυτος ἀπὸ Ἀφύτου τινὸς ἐγχωρίου, καὶ Προχύτη νῆσος Σικελίας βαρύνεται. Τὰ εἰς 'τη' ὑπερδισύλλαβα τῷ 'ω' παραληγόμενα βαρύνεται, Κριθώτη πόλις Ἑλλησπόντου· ἔστ…