Μεναί - Stephanos Ethnika

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Μεναί, πόλις Σικελίας ἐγγὺς Παλικῶν. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν δευτέρῳ χρονικῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεναῖος, ὡς Ἁλικύαι Ἁλικυαῖος.

Menai: a city of Sicily near the Palikoi. Apollodoros in book 2 of his Chronika. The ethnonym is 'Menaios'.

Text Details

Entry	#139
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 444.12 · Billerbeck Μ139
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count	15
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀπολλόδωρος (Apollodorus)	β Χρονικῶν · FGrHist 244 F 5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μεναί	Menai · place
Σικελία	Sicily · place
Παλίκοι	Palici · deity
Μεναῖος	Menaios (demonym) · people
Ἁλικύαι	Halikyai (place) · place
Ἁλικυαῖος	Halikyaios (demonym) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnic (demonym) is 'Μεναῖος' (Menaios), formed analogously to Ἁλικυαί → Ἁλικυαῖος.

Links

Place links	Menae
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Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.329

char LCS 58 (63.0%) · word LCS 9 (60.0%)

Stephanos

Μεναί, πόλις Σικελίας ἐγγὺς Παλικῶν. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν δευτέρῳ χρονικῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεναῖος, ὡς Ἁλικύαι Ἁλικυαῖος.

Herodian

…υσιανή ἡ χώρα καὶ κώμη Σουσιανή. Συρβανή νῆσος ἐν τῷ Εὐφράτῃ. Τὰ εἰς 'νη' δισύλλαβα τῷ 'ε' παραληγόμενα καὶ βαρύνεται καὶ ὀξύνεται. βαρύνεται τὸ ἔνη, ὀξύνεται τὸ Θεναί πόλις Κρήτης, τινὲς δὲ Ἀρκαδίας. οἱ δ´ ὄρος· καὶ τὸ Μεναί πόλις Σικελίας ἐγγὺς Παλικῶν. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν δευτέρῳ χρονικῶν. καὶ τὸ εὐνή μετὰ τοῦ 'υ'. γέγονε γὰρ ἀπὸ τοῦ εἷς ἑνός ἑνή καὶ εὐνή, ψιλουμένης τῆς 'ευ' διφθόγγου, ἐπεὶ τὸ 'υ' πλεονάζον ψιλοῖ τὰ πρὸ ἑαυτοῦ φωνήεντα, ἕκηλος εὔκηλος, ἕαδε εὔαδε. εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ Εὐναί πόλις Καρίας, ἐν ᾗ πο…