Μελάμπεια - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #122
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 441.16 | Billerbeck: Μ122
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count: 15
AI prompt: v1
Entities: Μελαμπεία (Melampeia) [place], Λυδία (Lydia) [place], Μελάμβος (Melambos) [person], Ξάνθος (Xanthus) [place], Λυδιακοί (Lydians) [people], Μελαμπεύς (Melampeus (ethnic)) [people], Σελευκεύς (Seleukeus (ethnic)) [people], Ἀλεξανδρεύς (Alexandrian (ethnic)) [people]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: from Melambos (i.e., named after Melambos); Morphological Composition: the ethnic/demonym 'Melampeus' formed like 'Seleukeus', 'Alexandreus' (i.e., formation of the ethnicon using the -εύς suffix)
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Μελάμπεια, πόλις Λυδίας, ἀπὸ Μελάμπου, ὡς Ξάνθος ἐν Λυδιακοῖς. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μελαμπεύς ὡς Σελευκεύς Ἀλεξανδρεύς.

Melampeia: a city of Lydia, named from Melampus, as Xanthus says in his Lydiaca. The ethnic (gentilic) is Melampeus, as (one says) Seleukeus / Alexandreus.

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Herodian 1.279

char LCS 50 (55.6%) · word LCS 9 (60.0%)

Stephanos

Μελάμπεια, πόλις Λυδίας, ἀπὸ Μελάμπου, ὡς Ξάνθος ἐν Λυδιακοῖς. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μελαμπεύς ὡς Σελευκεύς Ἀλεξανδρεύς.

Herodian

…λλίμαχος ἐν τρίτῳ. ἀπὸ Λυκωρέως τοῦ βασιλέως. Λυσιμάχεια πόλις τῆς Θρᾴκης χερρονήσου ἡ πρότερον Καρδία. Μακύνεια πόλις Αἰτωλίας. Στράβων δεκάτῃ. Μάρεια πόλις καὶ λίμνη τῇ Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ παρακειμένη, ἣ καὶ Μαρεῶτις λέγεται. Μελάμπεια πόλις Λυδίας ἀπὸ Μελάμπου, ὡς Ξάνθος ἐν Λυδιακοῖς. Μίδεια πόλις ἐν Ἄργει ἀπὸ Μιδείας τῆς Ἀλωέος θυγατρός. λέγεται καὶ χωρὶς τοῦ 'ι' Μιδέα. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα πόλις Βοιωτίας. Ὅμηρος «οἵ τε πολυστάφυλον Ἄρνην ἔχον οἵ τε Μίδειαν» (Β 507). ἔστι καὶ Λυκίας ἄλλη. Μολύνδεια πόλις…