Μέμνονες - Stephanos Ethnika

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people

Entry #138
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 444.10 | Billerbeck: Μ138
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count: 15
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Πολυΐστωρ (the 'much-knowing' (epithet of an author)) FGrHist 273 F 130
Entities: Μέμνονες (Memnones) [people], Αἰθίοπες (Aethiopians) [people]
Etymologies: Morphological Composition: "Memnones, an Ethiopian people, which is interpreted, as the 'poluistor' says, as 'some wild ones or warlike and harsh' (i.e. fierce/untamed)."
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Μέμνονες, ἔθνος Αἰθιοπικόν, ὃ ἑρμηνεύεται, ὡς ὁ πολυίστωρ φησίν, ἀγρίους τινὰς ἢ μαχίμους καὶ χαλεπούς.

Memnones: an Ethiopian ethnos; its name is interpreted—as the polymath says —to mean certain ‘wild’ people, or else ‘warlike and formidable’.

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Herodian 1.33

char LCS 76 (90.5%) · word LCS 14 (93.3%)

Stephanos

Μέμνονες, ἔθνος Αἰθιοπικόν, ὃ ἑρμηνεύεται, ὡς ὁ πολυίστωρ φησίν, ἀγρίους τινὰς ἢ μαχίμους καὶ χαλεπούς.

Herodian

…οῦ 'χ' εἰς 'κ' Λακεδαίμονα. ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἑτέρα Λακεδαίμων Κύπρου μεσόγειος. ὀλβιοδαίμων, Παλαίμων. Τὰ εἰς 'νων' ἔχοντα σύμφωνον ἐν ἐπιπλοκῇ ἢ κατὰ διάστασιν, εἰ μὴ ἐπὶ πόλεως εἴη ἢ περιεκτικά, βαρύνεται, Μέμνων, ἔστι καὶ ἔθνος Αἰθιοπικόν, ὃ ἑρμηνεύεται, ὡς ὁ πολυίστωρ φησίν, ἀγρίους τινὰς ἢ μαχίμους καὶ χαλεπούς. Δάφνων, Ἅγνων. Σέννων ἔθνος Γαλατικόν. τὸ Κραννών ὡς ἐπὶ πόλεως ὀξύνεται· ἔστι δὲ πόλις τῆς Θεσσαλίας τῆς Πελασγιώτιδος ἐν τοῖς Τέμπεσιν, ὡς Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη πόλις Ἀθαμανίας ἀπὸ Κραννῶνος τοῦ Πελασγοῦ. κα…