Μαιονία - Stephanos Ethnika

Μαιονία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Μαιονία, ἡ Λυδία, ἀπὸ Μαίονος ποταμοῦ τοῦ περὶ τὴν Ἀχαιίδα γῆν ῥέοντος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μαιόνιος καὶ Μαιονία θηλυκόν, καὶ Μαίων ὁμωνύμως τῷ οἰκιστῇ, ἀφ´ οὗ ἡ χώρα.

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Text Details

Entry	#19
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 426.13
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-27
Word count	27

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μαιονία	Maeonia · place
Λυδία	Lydia · place · corrected · Q620765
Μαίων	Maeonus (river) · place
Ἀχαιΐδα	Achaïda (Achaea) · place
Μαιόνιος	Maeonios (Ethnicon, masculine) · people
Μαιονία	Maeonia (Ethnicon, feminine) · people
Μαίων	Maion (founder/person) · person
Maeonia / Lydia	place · district · Lydia (Asia Minor) · explicit · unresolved

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Place Transfer	Maionia — Lydia, from the river Maiōn which flows around the land near Achaïda.
Eponym Person	and Maion, eponymously (the same-name) the founder, from whom the land [is named].

Links

Place links	Maionia in Lydia \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1226.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	[NO ANTECEDENT] + ἀφ' οὗ + Y (DERIVED NOUN) formula:85dbc02f91e20d41	Translate as "as per 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (MASCULINE ETYMON) + ἀφ' οὗ + Y (DERIVED NOUN) formula:04e9b95236efcdc4	Translate as "X... from/after whom is 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (NEUTER ETYMON) + ἀφ' οὗ + Y (DERIVED NOUN) formula:36c80425f64385f6	Translate as "X... from which is Y" or "X... as per 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	Matched · medium confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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	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	γῆ ἡ gloss:728db30aa96e9869	land, dirt, Earth Domain: TERRAIN/LANDMASSES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ὁμωνύμως/ὁμώνυμος -ον gloss:0fbae2a88778c0fa	homonymous, having the same name Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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Herodian 1.296

char LCS 47 (37.6%) · word LCS 10 (37.0%)

Stephanos

Μαιονία, ἡ Λυδία, ἀπὸ Μαίονος ποταμοῦ τοῦ περὶ τὴν Ἀχαιίδα γῆν ῥέοντος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μαιόνιος καὶ Μαιονία θηλυκόν, καὶ Μαίων ὁμωνύμως τῷ οἰκιστῇ, ἀφ´ οὗ ἡ χώρα.

Herodian

…ης τῆς Νέστου. Γαστρωνία χώρα Μακεδονίας. Θεόπομπος νδʹ. Γερηνία πόλις Μεσσηνίας, ἔνθα, φασί, Νέστωρ ὁ Πύλιος ἐτράφη ἢ φυγὰς ἤχθη. ἀπὸ εὐθείας τῆς ἡ Γέρηνος. Γορδυνία πόλις Μακεδονίας. Ἠσιονία ἡ Σάρδεων χώρα ἡ καὶ Ἀσία. Μαιονία ἡ Λυδία ἀπὸ Μαίονος ποταμοῦ τοῦ περὶ τὴν Ἀχαιΐδα ῥέοντος ἢ ἀπὸ Μαίονος τοῦ οἰκιστοῦ. Κατταβανία κατοικία τῆς εὐδαίμονος Ἀραβίας. Στράβων ἑκκαιδεκάτῃ «φέρει δὲ λιβανωτὸν ἡ Κατταβανία, σμύρναν δὲ ἡ Χατραμωτῖτις». Κυδωνία πόλις Κρήτης ἡ πρότερον Ἀπολλωνία ἀπὸ Κύδωνος τοῦ…