Μάσιον

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

Μάσιον OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
mountain
Entry #85
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 435.9 | Billerbeck: Μ85
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-27
Word count: 15
Translation blocked: Main substantive difference is the presence in Billerbeck of a bracketed word <Μασιανός> that Meineke omits; the rest are mechanical variants — numeric notation (ια vs ἑνδεκάτῃ), punctuation/commas, and minor accent placement.
Sources: Στράβων (Strabo) 11,12,4 [C 522,7]
Entities: Μάσιος (ὄρος) (Mount Masius) [place], Νισίβις (Nisibis) [place], Μασηνοί (Masians) [people], Μασιανός (Masian) [people], Πάριον (Parion) [place], Παριάνος (Parianos) [people]
Etymologies: Morphological Composition: The inhabitants are called Masenoi or Masianos, like Parion → Parianos (formation of the ethnicon from the place name).
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Μάσιον, ὄρος ὑπὲρ τῆς Νισίβιος. Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. οἱ οἰκοῦντες Μασηνοί, ἢ ὡς Πάριον Παριανός.
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Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.359
char LCS 40 (53.3%) · word LCS 7 (50.0%)
Stephanos
Μάσιον, ὄρος ὑπὲρ τῆς Νισίβιος. Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. οἱ οἰκοῦντες Μασηνοί, ἢ ὡς Πάριον Παριανός.
Herodian
…Βάκτριον πόλις. Μόψιον πόλις τῆς Πελασγιώτιδος χώρας Θεσσαλίας. «ὠνόμασται οὐκ ἀπὸ Μόψου τοῦ Μαντοῦς τῆς Τειρεσίου, ἀλλ´ ἀπὸ τοῦ Λαπίθου τοῦ συμπλεύσαντος τοῖς Ἀργοναύταις. ἄλλος δ´ ἐστὶ Μόψος, ἀφ´ οὗ ἡ Ἀττικὴ Μοψοπία». Μάσιον ὄρος ὑπὲρ τῆς Νισίβιος. Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. Κάστνιον ὄρος ἐν Ἀσπένδῳ τῆς Παμφυλίας. Κρήσιον πόλις Κύπρου. Θεόπομπος Φιλιππικῶν πεντεκαιδεκάτῳ. Καύδιον πόλις Ἰταλίας. Διονύσιος ἑκκαιδεκάτῳ Ῥωμαϊκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας, Κόριον τόπος ἐν Κρήτῃ ἀπὸ κόρης τινός. Κάσιον ὄρος …