Μέσμα

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Μέσμα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
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Entry #155
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 446.25 | Billerbeck: Μ155
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count: 14
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἀπολλόδωρος (Apollodorus) FGrHist 244 F 12 [Χρονικῶν]
Entities: Μέσμα (Mesma) [place], Ἰταλία (Italy) [place], Μεσμανός (Mesmanos (demonym)) [people], Νώλη (Nola) [place], Νωλανός (Nolanós (demonym)) [people]
Etymologies: Unclear Metalinguistic: Mesma: a city of Italy. The ethnic/demonym 'Mesmanós', like 'Nōlanós' of Nola.
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Μέσμα, πόλις Ἰταλίας. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν τρίτῳ χρονικῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεσμανός, ὡς τῆς Νῶλα Νωλανός.
Mesma: a city of Italy. Apollodorus in book 3 of the Chronika. The ethnic (demonym) is Mesmanos, as (one says) Nōlanos from Nōla.

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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