Μένδης - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #141
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 444.17 | Billerbeck: Μ141
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count: 30
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Στράβων (Strabo) ιζ (17,1,19 [C 802,9])
Entities: Μένδης (Mendis) [place], Αἴγυπτος (Egypt) [place], Λύκων (Lykon (city)) [place], Πᾶν (Pan) [deity], Μενδήσιος (Mendisian (male inhabitant)) [people], Μενδησία (Mendisian (female inhabitant)) [people], Μενδίτης (Mendite (alternative inhabitant name)) [people]
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Μένδης, πόλις Αἰγύπτου παρὰ τὴν Λύκων πόλιν. Στράβων ιζʹ “καὶ Λύκων πόλις καὶ Μένδης, ὅπου τὸν Πᾶνα τιμῶσι καὶ τὸν τράγον”. ὁ πολίτης Μενδήσιος καὶ Μενδησία θηλυκόν. λέγεται καὶ Μενδίτης.

Mendēs: a city of Egypt, near Lykōn Polis. Strabo: “and Lykōn Polis and Mendēs, where they honor Pan and the he-goat.” The citizen is called Mendēsios, and the feminine (sc. demotic) Mendēsia. It is also called Menditēs.

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Herodian 1.62

char LCS 96 (64.4%) · word LCS 21 (70.0%)

Stephanos

Μένδης, πόλις Αἰγύπτου παρὰ τὴν Λύκων πόλιν. Στράβων ιζʹ “καὶ Λύκων πόλις καὶ Μένδης, ὅπου τὸν Πᾶνα τιμῶσι καὶ τὸν τράγον”. ὁ πολίτης Μενδήσιος καὶ Μενδησία θηλυκόν. λέγεται καὶ Μενδίτης.

Herodian

«καδδ´ ᾖα Πύδην ἐρόεντα» (fr. 79 Duebner) καὶ «Πύδητος τηλεκλείτου ποταμοῖο» (ibid). ᾅδης, Γράδης, Μένδης πόλις Αἰγύπτου παρὰ τὴν Λύκων πόλιν. Στράβων ιζʹ, «καὶ Λύκων πόλις καὶ Μένδης, ὅπου τὸν Πᾶνα τιμῶσι καὶ τὸν τράγον» Πάνδης καὶ Σίνδης ἔθνη Ἰνδικά, Ἔσδης ἔθνος Ἰβηρικόν. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Ἴδης. Ὕδης, ἐξ οὗ ἡ πόλις Ὑδισσός. τὸ μέντοι ψευδής καὶ φραδής ἐπιθετικά. καὶ τὸ Ποδῆς καὶ Ῥοδῆς περιεσπάσθη, ὅτι τὸ 'ο' παραλήγει. Τὰ εἰς 'ης' ἀσυν…