Μερμησσός

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

Μερμησσός OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
city
Entry #148
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 445.15 | Billerbeck: Μ148
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count: 22
Translation blocked: The principal substantive difference is the pronoun: Billerbeck reads αὐτὴ (the city itself), while Meineke reads αὐτοῖς (to them/dative plural). Other differences are punctuation and minor orthographic/apostrophe variants.
Entities: Μερμησσός (Mermessos) [place], Ἐρυθραία Σίβυλλα (Erythraean Sibyl (Sibyl of Erythrae)) [person], Μερμήσσιος (Mermessian (demonym)) [people], Μερμησσεύς (Mermesseus (demonym)) [people]
Etymologies: Place Transfer: From which (comes) the Erythraean Sibyl.; Morphological Composition: For the city itself was red in color.; Morphological Composition: The ethnic/demonym (is) Mermēssios and Mermessēus.
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Μερμησσός, πόλις Τρωική, ἀφ´ ἧς ἡ Ἐρυθραία Σίβυλλα. ἦν γὰρ καὶ ἡ πόλις αὐτοῖς ἐρυθρὰ τῷ χρώματι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μερμήσσιος καὶ Μερμησσεύς.
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Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.