Μέδμη

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Μέδμη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
city
Entry #114
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 440.5 | Billerbeck: Μ114
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count: 32
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus) FGrHist 1 F 81 [Εὐρώπῃ]
Entities: Μέδμη (Medme (Medma)) [place], Μέδμη (Medme (Medma)) [place], Ἰταλία (Italy) [place], Εὐρώπη (Europe) [place], Φίλιππος (Philip) [person], Μεδμαῖος (Medmaean (citizen of Medme)) [people], Λιγυστική (Ligustica (the Ligurian region)) [place]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: From (or after) Medme, a certain maiden (i.e. named for a woman called Medme).; Morphological Composition: The ethnic/demonym is 'Μεδμαῖος' (formed from the place-name, i.e. Medma- + -aios).; Unclear Metalinguistic: Medme: a city of Italy and a homonymous spring (the name is shared by both a city and a spring).
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Μέδμη, πόλις Ἰταλίας καὶ κρήνη ὁμώνυμος. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἀπὸ Μέδμης κόρης τινός. ὁ πολίτης Μεδμαῖος. ὅθεν ἦν Φίλιππος ἀξιόλογος ἀνὴρ ὁ περὶ ἀνέμων γεγραφώς. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα πόλις τῆς Λιγυστικῆς. ἐθνικὸν Μεδμαῖος.
Medmē: a city of Italy, and a spring of the same name. Hecataeus in the *Europa*. [So called] from Medmē, a certain maiden. The citizen is Medmaios. From there was Philippos, a noteworthy man, who wrote about winds (test. 5 Lasserre). There is also another city in Ligystikē. Ethnic: Medmaios.

Herodian overlaps

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Herodian 1.324
char LCS 42 (24.3%) · word LCS 7 (21.9%)
Stephanos
Μέδμη, πόλις Ἰταλίας καὶ κρήνη ὁμώνυμος. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἀπὸ Μέδμης κόρης τινός. ὁ πολίτης Μεδμαῖος. ὅθεν ἦν Φίλιππος ἀξιόλογος ἀνὴρ ὁ περὶ ἀνέμων γεγραφώς. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα πόλις τῆς Λιγυστικῆς. ἐθνικὸν Μεδμαῖος.
Herodian
… ὀξύνει, ὡς δηλοῖ καὶ ὁ κωμικὸς ἐν τῷ »οὔτοι ἀφεστήκασι πλεῖν ἢ δύο δοχμά«. ἐν μέντοι, φησί, τοῖς ἀκριβεστέροις ἀντιγράφοις ὀξεῖα ἐπίκειται τῇ πρώτῃ συλλαβῇ κατὰ τὸ λόχμη, λόγχη, ὄχθη, ὄχνη. τὸ δὲ Μέδμη κόρη τις, ἀφ´ ἧς πόλις Ἰταλίας καὶ κρήνη ὁμώνυμος, Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ, κύριόν ἐστι, μεθ´ οὗ καὶ Ἀλύχμη τρισύλλαβον, ἐν ᾗ τιμᾶται Ἀλύχμιος Ἑρμῆς. τὸ μέντοι χάσμη βαρύνεται δασὺ ἔχον τὸ σύμφωνον. Τὰ εἰς 'μη' ἔχοντα σύμφωνον κατὰ διάστασιν βαρύνεται, τόλμη, ἅλμη, χάρμη, σκάλμη, θέρμη. ἔστι κ…

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