Μάσιον

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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Μάσιον, ὄρος ὑπὲρ τῆς Νισίβιος. Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. οἱ οἰκοῦντες Μασηνοί, ἢ ὡς Πάριον Παριανός.

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Text Details

Entry#85
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 435.9 · Billerbeck Μ85
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-27
Word count15
Translation statusMain 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.

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)11,12,4 [C 522,7]
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
Μάσιος (ὄρος)Mount Masius · place
ΝισίβιςNisibis · place
ΜασηνοίMasians · people
ΜασιανόςMasian · people
ΠάριονParion · place
ΠαριάνοςParianos · people
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Morphological CompositionThe inhabitants are called Masenoi or Masianos, like Parion → Parianos (formation of the ethnicon from the place name).

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Place linksHouse of Rzeszowski (Półkozic)
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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 …

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