Μένδης - Stephanos Ethnika

Μένδης OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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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.

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Text Details

Entry	#141
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 444.17 · Billerbeck Μ141
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count	30

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	ιζ (17,1,19 [C 802,9])

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μένδης	Mendis · place · corrected · Q1427162
Αἴγυπτος	Egypt · place · corrected · Q11768
Λύκων	Lykon (city) · place
Πᾶν	Pan · deity
Μενδήσιος	Mendisian (male inhabitant) · people
Μενδησία	Mendisian (female inhabitant) · people
Μενδίτης	Mendite (alternative inhabitant name) · people
Μένδης	place · explicit · wikidata: Q1427162 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Mendes \| 📍 Map
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1410.jpg
Review	Open review page

Herodian overlaps

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

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…