Μέλισσα

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Μέλισσα, πόλις Λιβύων. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. ὁ οἰκήτωρ Μελισσαῖος. ἡ χώρα Μελισσαία. ἔστι καὶ ἐν Κυζίκῳ κώμη Μέλισσα, τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μελισσηνός ὡς Κυζικηνός.

Melissa: a city of the Libyans. Hekataios in his Asia. The inhabitant is a 'Melissa ios'. The territory is 'Melissaia'. There is also in Kyzikos a village Melissa. The ethnonym is 'Melissenos'.

Text Details

Entry#131
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 442.15 · Billerbeck Μ131
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count22
AI translationlegacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)Ἀσίᾳ · FGrHist 1 F 357
Ἀσία (Asia)—
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΜέλισσαMelissa (city) · place
ΛίβυεςLibyans · people
ΜελισσαῖοςMelissaios (inhabitant of Melissa) · person
ΜελισσαίαMelissaia (region) · place
ΚύζικοςCyzicus · place
ΜελισσηνόςMelissenos (ethnic form) · people
ΚυζικηνόςCyzicenos/Cyzicene (ethnic form of Cyzicus) · people
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Unclear MetalinguisticMelissa: a city of the Libyans.
Morphological Compositionthe inhabitant (ethnic) is called Μελισσαῖος (Melissaios).
Morphological Compositionthe country/region is called Μελισσαία (Melissaia).
Unclear MetalinguisticThere is also in Cyzicus a village called Μέλισσα (Melissa).
Morphological Compositionthe ethnicon (demonym) Μελισσηνός (Melissenos), analogous to Κυζικηνός (Kyzikenos).

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Herodian 1.268
char LCS 30 (25.4%) · word LCS 5 (22.7%)
Stephanos
Μέλισσα, πόλις Λιβύων. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. ὁ οἰκήτωρ Μελισσαῖος. ἡ χώρα Μελισσαία. ἔστι καὶ ἐν Κυζίκῳ κώμη Μέλισσα, τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μελισσηνός ὡς Κυζικηνός.
Herodian
…ὄρος ἀπὸ Τιλφώσσης νύμφης. γράφεται καὶ δι´ ἑνὸς 'σ'. μέλισσα καὶ Μέλισσα θυγάτηρ Ἐπιδάμνου, ἧς καὶ τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος ὁ Δυρράχιος. ἀφ´ ἧς ἔστιν ἐν Ἐπιδάμνῳ τόπος Μελισσώνιος, ἔνθα Ποσειδῶν αὐτῇ συνῆλθεν, ὡς Φίλων. ἔστι καὶ Μέλισσα πόλις Λιβύων. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. καὶ ἐν Κυζίκῳ κώμη Μέλισσα. Ἄμφισσα πόλις Ὀζολῶν Λοκρῶν. ἔστι δὲ παραγωγὴ ἐκ τῆς ἀμφί ὡς ἐκ τῆς ἀντί Ἄντισσα· ἔστι δὲ πόλις Λέσβου ἐφεξῆς τῷ Σιγρίῳ ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀντίσσης τῆς Μάκαρος θυγατρός, ἐν τοῖς Φίλωνος. ἔστι καὶ νῆσος…

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