Μέσμα

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Μέσμα, πόλις Ἰταλίας. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν τρίτῳ χρονικῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεσμανός, ὡς τῆς Νῶλα Νωλανός.

Mesma: a city of Italy. Apollodoros in book 3 of his Chronika. The ethnonym is 'Mesmanos',.

Text Details

Entry#155
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 446.25 · Billerbeck Μ155
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count14
AI translationlegacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Ἀπολλόδωρος (Apollodorus)Χρονικῶν · FGrHist 244 F 12
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΜέσμαMesma · place
ἸταλίαItaly · place
ΜεσμανόςMesmanos (demonym) · people
ΝώληNola · place
ΝωλανόςNolanós (demonym) · people
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Unclear MetalinguisticMesma: a city of Italy. The ethnic/demonym 'Mesmanós', like 'Nōlanós' of Nola.

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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.255
char LCS 43 (56.6%) · word LCS 7 (50.0%)
Stephanos
Μέσμα, πόλις Ἰταλίας. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν τρίτῳ χρονικῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεσμανός, ὡς τῆς Νῶλα Νωλανός.
Herodian
…ς Ἀΐλας κώμης«. ὡσαύτως καὶ Φιλομήλα Δώριον τροπῇ τοῦ 'η' εἰς 'α' πεποιημένον. Τὰ εἰς 'μα' θηλυκὰ σπάνια ὄντα βαρύνεται, τόλμα, θέρμα, Ἀττικῶς δὲ τόλμη καὶ θέρμη. ἔστι δὲ καὶ πόλις Θέρμα, ἣ ὕστερον Θεσσαλονίκη ἐκαλεῖτο. Μέσμα πόλις Ἰταλίας. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν τρίτῳ χρονικῶν.

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