Μένουθις

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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village
Μένουθις, Αἰγυπτία κώμη πρὸς τῷ Κανώβῳ. καὶ νῆσος Αἰθιοπίας Μενουθιάς· τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μενουθίτης τοῦ Μένουθις διὰ τὸν τῆς χώρας χαρακτῆρα, τοῦ δὲ Μενουθιάς Μενουθιεύς.

Menouthis: an Egyptian village near Kanobos; also an island of Aithiopia, Menouthias. The ethnonym is 'Menouthites', because of the character of the country; but from Menouthias, 'Menouthieus'.

Text Details

Entry#145
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 445.7 · Billerbeck Μ145
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count24
AI translationlegacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΜένουθιςMenouthis · place
ΑἰγυπτίαAigyptia (village) · place
ΚάνωποςCanopus · place
ΑἰθιοπίαAethiopia (Ethiopia) · place
ΜενουθιάMenouthias · place
ΜενουθίτηςMenouthis, inhabitant (ethnic) · people
ΜενουθιεὺςMenouthieus, inhabitant (ethnic) · people
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Morphological CompositionThe ethnicon 'Μενουθίτης' (Menouthites), of Menouthis, [is so] because of the character/feature of the country (i.e. derived from the nature of the place).
Morphological CompositionAnd (the ethnicon) of Menouthias is 'Μενουθιεύς' (Menouthieus).

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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.88
char LCS 19 (14.1%) · word LCS 5 (20.8%)
Stephanos
Μένουθις, Αἰγυπτία κώμη πρὸς τῷ Κανώβῳ. καὶ νῆσος Αἰθιοπίας Μενουθιάς· τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μενουθίτης τοῦ Μένουθις διὰ τὸν τῆς χώρας χαρακτῆρα, τοῦ δὲ Μενουθιάς Μενουθιεύς.
Herodian
…ς, κολοκυνθίς, ἀγαθίς. Ἠμαθίς χώρα ἡ νῦν Μακεδονία. Ἀσπαλαθίς νῆσος Λυκίας. λέγεται οὕτω διὰ τὰς ἐν αὐτῇ πεφυκυίας ἀσπαλάθους. Ἀψυνθίς χώρα. Ἐρυμανθίς, Οἰανθίς, Τιρυνθίς, Παρνηθίς, Πεπαρηθίς. τὸ δὲ Ταμίαθις καὶ Μένουθις κώμη πρὸς τῷ Κανώβῳ καὶ Τερένουθις, Θέρμουθις, Ἔλβονθις πόλις μεταξὺ Αἰγύπτου καὶ Κυρήνης, Φενέβηθις, Ἕρμωνθις πόλεις Αἰγύπτου βαρύνονται. Τὰ εἰς 'κις' δισύλλαβα ὀξύνεται, Φωκίς χώρα περὶ τὸν Παρνασόν. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἀπὸ Φώκου τινός. κερκίς,…

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