Μαχαιροῦς - Stephanos Ethnika

Μαχαιροῦς OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

fortress

Μαχαιροῦς, φρούριον τῆς Ἰουδαίας, ὡς Ἰώσηπος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ὤφειλεν ὡς Ἱεριχούντιος. αὐτὸς δὲ Μαχαιρίτας αὐτούς φησι.

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Text Details

Entry	#104
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 437.17 · Billerbeck Μ104
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count	16

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἰώσηπος (Josephus)	AJ (Antiquities of the Jews); BJ (The Jewish War) · AJ 14,89 et 18,111; BJ 1,161. 167, etc.

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μαχαιροῦς	Machairous (fortress) · place · corrected · Q1549278
Ἰουδαία	Judea · place · corrected · Q104028
Ἱεριχούντιος	Jerichonian / from Jericho · people
Μαχαιρίτης	Machairitai (the Machairitae) · people
Μαχαιροῦς	place · explicit · wikidata: Q1549278 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Place Transfer	The ethnicon (the name of the inhabitants) was owed to / derived from (being) Jerichonite — i.e. the name derives from Jericho.
Unclear Metalinguistic	But he (Josephus) calls them 'Machairitas' — an alternative naming/ethnic designation.

Links

Place links	Machaerus \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1343.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.243

char LCS 38 (40.4%) · word LCS 6 (37.5%)

Stephanos

Μαχαιροῦς, φρούριον τῆς Ἰουδαίας, ὡς Ἰώσηπος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ὤφειλεν ὡς Ἱεριχούντιος. αὐτὸς δὲ Μαχαιρίτας αὐτούς φησι.

Herodian

Ἐπικνημιδίων, λέγεται καὶ Ὀπόεις. ἔστι καὶ Ὀποῦς πόλις Ἀχαΐας καὶ τῆς Ἠλείας ἄλλη. Σιδαροῦς πόλις Λυκίας καὶ λιμήν. Μαχαιροῦς φρούριον τῆς Ἰουδαίας, ὡς Ἰώσηπος. Τραπεζοῦς πόλις πρὸς τῷ Εὐξείνῳ πόντῳ· ἔστι καὶ Ἀρκαδίας πόλις Τραπεζοῦς ἀπὸ Τραπεζοῦντος παιδὸς Λυκάονος, ὡς Παυσανίας ὀγδόῳ ( 3, 3). ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη πλησίον τοῦ Ἀραβικοῦ κόλπου. Σολοῦς πόλις Σικελίας, ὡς Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. …