Μελία - Stephanos Ethnika

Μελία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Entry #126
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 442.5 | Billerbeck: Μ126
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count: 11
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus) FGrHist 1 F 11 = fr. 11 Fowler [Γενεαλογιῶν]
Entities: Μελία (Melia) [place], Καρία (Caria) [place], Μελιεύς (Melieus (ethnic/demonym)) [people], Ὑριεύς (Hyrieus (ethnic/demonym)) [people]
Etymologies: Unclear Metalinguistic: The ethnicon (demonym) is 'Μελιεύς' (Melieus), as (is) 'Ὑριεύς' (Hyrieus).
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Μελία, πόλις Καρίας. Ἑκαταῖος γενεαλογιῶν δʹ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μελιεύς ὡς Ὑριεύς.

Melia: a city of Caria. Hecataeus, in the fourth book of the Genealogies. The ethnic (gentilic) is Melieus, as (in the analogous formation) Hyrieus.

Herodian overlaps

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Herodian 1.289

char LCS 36 (60.0%) · word LCS 6 (54.5%)

Stephanos

Μελία, πόλις Καρίας. Ἑκαταῖος γενεαλογιῶν δʹ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μελιεύς ὡς Ὑριεύς.

Herodian

…Κλείδημος ἐν πρώτῳ Ἀτθίδος «καὶ ἐξῳκίσθησαν ὑπὲρ τὸν Αἰγιαλὸν ἄνω τῆς καλουμένης Μακετίας». Μαστία πόλις πρὸς ταῖς Ἡρακλείαις στήλαις. Μεδυλλία πόλις, Ἀλβανῶν κτίσις, Ῥωμαίων ἄποικος. Διονύσιος γʹ Ῥωμαϊκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας. Μελία πόλις Καρίας. Ἑκαταῖος γενεαλογιῶν δʹ. Ναυπλία, πόλις Ἄργους. Στράβων ὀγδόῃ «ἀπὸ τοῦ ταῖς ναυσὶ προσπλεῖσθαι». Ξιλία πόλις Λιβύης. Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν τρίτῳ Λιβυκῶν. Ὀρεστία τὸ ἥμισυ μέρος Μεγάλης Πόλεως ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ Ὀρέστου παρουσίας. ἔστι καὶ πόλις ἐν Ὀρέσταις,…