Μάζυες - Stephanos Ethnika

Μάζυες OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

people

Entry #11
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 425.14 | Billerbeck: Μ11
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-26
Word count: 14
Translation blocked: Mostly mechanical typographic differences (punctuation and capitalization) plus one substantive lexical variant: the second ethnonym reads Μάζυες in Billerbeck but Μάξυες in Meineke (ζ vs ξ).
Sources: Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus) FGrHist 1 F 334 [Περιήγησις]
Entities: Μάζυες (Mazyes) [people], Λιβύη (Libya) [place], Μάχλυες (Machlyes) [people]
Etymologies: Unclear Metalinguistic: "Mazyai: the nomads of Libya." (identifies the name as referring to Libyan nomads, no derivation given); Unclear Metalinguistic: "There are also other Mazyai and other Machlyai." (notes other groups with the same or similar names, without explaining origin)
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Μάζυες, οἱ Λιβύης νομάδες. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει. εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ ἕτεροι Μάξυες καὶ ἕτεροι Μάχλυες.

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Herodian 1.236

char LCS 55 (72.4%) · word LCS 10 (71.4%)

Stephanos

Μάζυες, οἱ Λιβύης νομάδες. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει. εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ ἕτεροι Μάξυες καὶ ἕτεροι Μάχλυες.

Herodian

…ύας ἢ Φλεγύης, Γόρδυς Τριπτολέμου παῖς, ἀφ´ οὗ Γορδυαία χώρα Περσική, Γόρτυς ἥρως, ἀφ´ οὗ Γόρτυν πόλις Κρήτης, Δίρφυς ὄρος Εὐβοίας, ὡς Εὐφορίων, Κάπυς ὁ πατὴρ Ἀγχίσου. Λίγυς ἔθνος Ἰβηρικόν, Μάζυς ἔθνος Λιβύης νομαδικόν. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει. εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ ἕτεροι Μάξυες καὶ ἕτεροι Μάχλυες. Μάκρυς ἔθνος Λιβύης. Ῥιανὸς δὲ Μάκριας διὰ τοῦ 'ι' τούτους φησί. Μίλυς ἔθνος. Μίλυες γὰρ καὶ Μιλύαι καλοῦνται οἱ πρότερον Σόλυμοι, ὡς Τιμαγένης ἐν πρώτῳ βασιλέων. Σάλλυς ἔθνος Λιγυστικὸν πολεμῆσαν Ῥωμαίοις, ὡς Χάραξ ἐν…