Μένδη - Stephanos Ethnika

Μένδη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Μένδη, πόλις Θρᾴκης, ἀπὸ Μένδης γυναικός. Ἀπολλόδωρος Μένδιν αὐτήν φησι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μενδαῖος οἶνος.

Mende: a city of Thrace, from Mende a woman. Apollodoros says that she herself is 'Mendis'. The ethnonym is 'Mendaios'; wine.

Text Details

Entry	#140
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 444.15 · Billerbeck Μ140
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count	14
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀπολλόδωρος (Apollodorus)	FGrHist 244 F 195

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μένδη	Mende · place
Θρᾴκη	Thrace · place
Μένδη	Mende (female eponym) · person
Μένδη	Mende · place
Μενδαῖος	Mendaean (ethnic) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	from Mende (a woman) — named after a woman called Mende.
Unclear Metalinguistic	Apollodorus (FGrHist 244 F 195) says it (the city) is 'Mendin' (gives the form/name Mendin).
Unclear Metalinguistic	the ethnicon (demonym) 'Mendaíos'.

Links

Place links	Mende \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1410.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.311

char LCS 48 (59.3%) · word LCS 7 (50.0%)

Stephanos

Μένδη, πόλις Θρᾴκης, ἀπὸ Μένδης γυναικός. Ἀπολλόδωρος Μένδιν αὐτήν φησι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μενδαῖος οἶνος.

Herodian

προσηγορικὰ ὄντα ὀξύνεται, χορδή, σπονδή. τὸ μέντοι Χόνδη κύριον βαρύνεται καὶ τὸ Μένδη πόλις Θρᾴκης ἀπὸ Μένδης γυναικός. Ἀπολλόδωρος Μένδαν αὐτήν φησι, καὶ τὸ Τίνδη Θρᾴκης Χαλκιδικὴ πόλις καὶ τὸ ἄλδη. Τὰ εἰς 'δη' προσηγορικὰ μακρᾷ παραληγόμενα ὀξύνεται, ᾠδή, ἀοιδή, σπουδή, ἐδωδή, αὐδή. τὸ μέντοι Λήδη κύριον, καὶ Ἴδη Τροίας ὄρος. Ὅμηρος (Il. Γ 276) »Ἴδηθεν…