Μέσσαβα - Stephanos Ethnika

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city

Entry #158
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 447.5 | Billerbeck: Μ158
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count: 13
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus) FGrHist 1 F 252 [Ἀσίᾳ]
Entities: Μέσσαβα (Messaba) [place], Κάριοι (Carians) [people], Μεσσαβεύς (Messabeus (demonym)) [people]
Etymologies: Morphological Composition: The ethnicon 'Messabeus', formed according to the pattern/type of Carian cities.
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Μέσσαβα, πόλις Καρῶν. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεσσαβεύς, τῷ τύπῳ τῶν Καρικῶν πόλεων.

Messaba: a city of the Carians. Hecataeus, in the *Asia*. The ethnic (gentilic) is Messabeus, in accordance with the pattern of the Carian cities.

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Herodian 1.379

char LCS 29 (42.0%) · word LCS 5 (38.5%)

Stephanos

Μέσσαβα, πόλις Καρῶν. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεσσαβεύς, τῷ τύπῳ τῶν Καρικῶν πόλεων.

Herodian

…ἄρκευθος ἄρκευθον. * Τὰ εἰς 'βον' οὐδέτερα πληθυντικὰ κύρια ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβὰς προπαροξύνεται, Κάνδυβα πόλις Λυκίας ἀπὸ Κανδύβου παιδὸς Λευκαλίωνος. Μαρίαβα μητρόπολις Σαβαίων πρὸς τῇ Ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ. Στράβων ἑκκαιδεκάτῃ. Μέσσαβα πόλις Καρῶν. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Μήδαβα πόλις τῶν Ναβαταίων. Τένδηβα πόλις Καρίας ἀρχαία. Ῥαβάθμωβα πόλις τρίτης Παλαιστίνης ἡ νῦν Ἀρεόπολις. Χαράκμωβα πόλις τῆς νῦν τρίτης Παλαιστίνης, ἣν ἀναγράφει Πτολεμαῖος γεωγραφικοῖς ἐν εʹ βιβλίῳ ἐν Ἀραβικαῖς τῆ…