Μαινόβωρα - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #18
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 426.11 | Billerbeck: Μ18
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-27
Word count: 8
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus) FGrHist 1 F 42 [Εὐρώπῃ]
Entities: Μαινόβωρα (Mainobora) [place], Μαστιηνοί (Mastians) [people], Εὐρώπη (Europe) [place], Μαινοβωραῖος (Mainoborean (ethnicon)) [people]
Etymologies: Unclear Metalinguistic: Mainobora; a city of the Mastiēnoi. (Mentioned by) Hecataeus in his Europa. The ethnicon is Μαινοβωραῖος.
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Μαινόβωρα, πόλις Μαστιηνῶν. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μαινοβωραῖος.

Mainobora: a city of the Mastieni. Hecataeus, in his *Europa*. The ethnic (gentilic) is Mainoboraios.

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Herodian 1.388

char LCS 37 (63.8%) · word LCS 5 (62.5%)

Stephanos

Μαινόβωρα, πόλις Μαστιηνῶν. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μαινοβωραῖος.

Herodian

…εὔληρον ἐπὶ ἱματίου καὶ ἐπὶ δεσμοῦ. ἄλευρον, φθινόπωρον, μετόπωρον, πέλωρον, κνέωρον ἀκανθῶδες φυτόν. Κύτωρον πόλις Παφλαγονίας, οἱ δὲ ἡ Κύτωρός φασι. Κοτύωρα κώμη πρὸς τῷ Πόντῳ, ὡς Ἀρριανός. Ἀννίχωρον. μέμνηται Ἀλκμάν. Μαινόβωρα πόλις Μαστιηνῶν. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Ἄσσωρον ὄρος Σάμου, ὅθεν ῥεῖ ὁ Ἀμφίλυσος. Εὐφορίων Ἀρτεμιδώρῳ »δαῖμον ὃς Ἀμφιλύσοιο ῥόον....« Ἴσαυρα πόλις, Χάραξ δὲ θηλυκῶς. Μάσταυρα πόλις Λυδίας, ἀπὸ Μᾶς. Μᾶ δὲ τῇ Ῥέᾳ εἵπετο, ᾗ παρέδωκε Ζεὺς Διόνυσον τρέφειν. καὶ ἡ…