Μεσσόα - Stephanos Ethnika

Μεσσόα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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

Messoa: a place in Lakonia. Strabo, book 8. There is also a Lakonian tribe. The ethnonym is 'Messoates'.

Text Details

Entry	#163
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 448.3 · Billerbeck Μ163
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count	12
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	η̅ (8,5,3 [C 364,5])

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μεσσόα	Messoa · place
Λακωνική	Laconia (Laconian region) · place
Λακωνική	Laconia (Laconian) · place
Μεσσοάτης	Messoates (ethnic name) · people

Links

Place links	Mesoa
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1433.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

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

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.