Μάσσακα - Stephanos Ethnika

Μάσσακα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Μάσσακα, πόλις Ἰνδῶν. Ἀρριανὸς ἐν Ἰνδικοῖς. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μασσακηνός, ὡς Μάζακα Μαζακηνός.

Massaka: a city of the Indians. Arrian in his Indika, book 1. The ethnonym is 'Massakenos',.

Entry	#90
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 436.4 · Billerbeck Μ90
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-27
Word count	12
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀρριανός (Arrian)	Ἰνδικοῖς (Ἰνδικά, 'Indica') · (1,8)

Entity	Details
Μάσσακα	Massaka (Massaca) · place
Ἰνδοί	Indians · people
Μασσακηνός	Massakēnos (demonym) · people
Μάζακα	Mazaka (variant of Massaka) · place
Μαζακηνός	Mazakēnos (demonym, variant) · people

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	the demonym (ethnikon) Massakēnós, as Mazaka Mazakēnós.

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