Μεσσόα - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #163
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 448.3 | Billerbeck: Μ163
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count: 12
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Στράβων (Strabo) η̅ (8,5,3 [C 364,5])
Entities: Μεσσόα (Messoa) [place], Λακωνική (Laconia (Laconian region)) [place], Λακωνική (Laconia (Laconian)) [place], Μεσσοάτης (Messoates (ethnic name)) [people]
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Μεσσόα, τόπος Λακωνικῆς. Στράβων ὀγδόῃ. ἔστι καὶ φυλὴ Λακωνική. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεσσοάτης.

Messoa: a place in Laconia. Strabo, book 8. There is also a Laconian tribe (phylē) so called. The ethnic (adjectival/demonymic form) is Messoatēs.

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Herodian 1.301

char LCS 51 (73.9%) · word LCS 9 (75.0%)

Stephanos

Μεσσόα, τόπος Λακωνικῆς. Στράβων ὀγδόῃ. ἔστι καὶ φυλὴ Λακωνική. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεσσοάτης.

Herodian

…Ὀεῖς λέγεσθαι ἀπὸ τοῦ Ὀεὺς ὡς ἄλλα πολλά. χροία χρόα. ποία πόα. Γενόα πόλις τῶν Λιγύρων τῆς Ἰταλίας, καλουμένη νῦν Ἰάνουα, ὡς Ἀρτεμίδωρος. Θεισόα πόλις Ἀρκαδίας. Λυκόα πόλις Ἀρκαδίας. Παυσανίας ὀγδόῃ (c. 36, 7). Μεσόα ἢ Μεσσόα τόπος Λακωνικῆς. Στράβων ὀγδόῃ. ἔστι καὶ φυλὴ Λακωνική. Νόαι πόλις Σικελίας. Ἀπολλόδωρος δευτέρῳ χρονικῶν. τὰ δὲ ἐν ἐπενθέσει ὀξύνεται στοιά στοά, ῥοιά ῥοά.