Μάσης - Stephanos Ethnika

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city

Entry #84
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 435.5 | Billerbeck: Μ84
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-27
Word count: 39
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Παυσανίας (Pausanias) β̄ (2,36,2) [Description of Greece], Ὅμηρος (Homer) Β 562 [Iliad]
Entities: Μάσης (Mases (city)) [place], Ἀργεῖοι (Argives) [people], Αἴγινα (Aegina) [place], Μάσης (Mases (accusative plural/variant)) [place], Ἀχαῖοι (Achaeans) [people], Μάσητος (Masētos (alternative name/form of the place)) [place], Μασητίοι (Masetioi (inhabitants of Mases)) [people], Μασητίς (Masētis (village name)) [place]
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Μάσης, πόλις Ἀργείων. Παυσανίας δευτέρῳ “ὁδός ἐστιν ἐπὶ Μάσητα”. Ὅμηρος “οἵ τ´ ἔχον Αἴγιναν Μάσητά τε κοῦροι Ἀχαιῶν”. λέγεται ἡ πόλις καὶ ἡ Μάσητος οἱ πολῖται Μασήτιοι. ἔστι καὶ λίμνη καὶ κώμη Μασῆτις καὶ νῆσος.

Masēs: a city of the Argives. Pausanias, book 2: “there is a road to Masēta.” Homer (Il. 2.562): “and the Achaean youths who held Aigina and Masēta.” The city is also called hē Masētos. The inhabitants are Masētioi. There is also a lake, and a village Masētis, and an island.

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Herodian 1.63

char LCS 91 (54.8%) · word LCS 18 (51.4%)

Stephanos

Μάσης, πόλις Ἀργείων. Παυσανίας δευτέρῳ “ὁδός ἐστιν ἐπὶ Μάσητα”. Ὅμηρος “οἵ τ´ ἔχον Αἴγιναν Μάσητά τε κοῦροι Ἀχαιῶν”. λέγεται ἡ πόλις καὶ ἡ Μάσητος οἱ πολῖται Μασήτιοι. ἔστι καὶ λίμνη καὶ κώμη Μασῆτις καὶ νῆσος.

Herodian

…όν, τὸ δὲ ποτής θηλυκόν. τὸ μέντοι ψιλής παρ´ Αἰσχύλῳ ἐπιθετικόν. τὸ δὲ Πυθῆς συναλήλιπται. Τὰ εἰς 'ης' δισύλλαβα μὴ ὄντα προσηγορικὰ ἢ ἐπιθετικὰ συναληλιμμένα βαρύνονται, ἔχοντα πρὸ τοῦ 'η' ἢ 'σ' ἢ 'ξ'. Ξέρξης, Χρύσης. Μάσης πόλις Ἀργείων. Παυσανίας δευτέρῳ (c. 36, 2) «ὁδός ἐστιν ἐπὶ Μάσητα». Ὅμηρος «οἵ τ´ ἔχον Αἴγιναν Μάσητά τε κοῦροι Ἀχαιῶν» (Β 562). λέγεται δὲ ἡ πόλις καὶ ἡ Μάσητος. Πέρσης τὸ ἔθνος. λέγεται καὶ Πέρσης ὄνομα. Βούσης, Μάρσης, ἀφ´ οὗ Μαρσύα πόλις φοινίκης. τὸ δὲ κασῆς τὸ πιλωτὸν ἱμάτιον περισπᾶται. τὸ δὲ Κισσῄς ὀξύνεται ὡς ἐπίθετον. Τὰ εἰς '…