Μαχαιροῦς - Stephanos Ethnika

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fortress

Entry #104
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 437.17 | Billerbeck: Μ104
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count: 16
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἰώσηπος (Josephus) AJ 14,89 et 18,111; BJ 1,161. 167, etc. [AJ (Antiquities of the Jews); BJ (The Jewish War)]
Entities: Μαχαιροῦς (Machairous (fortress)) [place], Ἰουδαία (Judea) [place], Ἱεριχούντιος (Jerichonian / from Jericho) [people], Μαχαιρίτης (Machairitai (the Machairitae)) [people]
Etymologies: 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.
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Μαχαιροῦς, φρούριον τῆς Ἰουδαίας, ὡς Ἰώσηπος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ὤφειλεν ὡς Ἱεριχούντιος. αὐτὸς δὲ Μαχαιρίτας αὐτούς φησι.

Machaerus: a fortress of Judaea, as (stated by) Josephus (Ant. Jud. 14.89 and 18.111; Bell. Jud. 1.161, 167, etc.). The ethnic should properly have been (formed) like ‘Hierichountios’ (i.e. ‘of Jericho’); but he himself calls them ‘Machairitai’.

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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. …