Μέσσωγις

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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Μέσσωγις, ὄρος Λυδίας. τὸ τοπικὸν Μεσσωγίτης. Στράβων τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῃ “ὅθεν ἄριστος Μεσσωγίτης οἶνος ὁ Ἀρομεύς”.

Messogis: a mountain of Lydia. The locative is 'Messogites'. Strabo, book 14: 'whence the best Messogites wine, the Aromeus'.

Text Details

Entry#164
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 448.5 · Billerbeck Μ164
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count14
AI translationlegacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)(14,1,47 [C 650,23])
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΜεσυγίςMesugis / Mesygis · place
ΛυδίαLydia · place
ΜεσυγίτηςMesygites (resident of Mesugis) · people
ἈρομεύςAromeus · other
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Unclear Metalinguistic“Mesygis: a mountain of Lydia. The local adjective Mesygitēs. Strabo 14.1.47: 'whence the excellent Mesygitis wine, the Aromeus.'” — The passage names the place, gives its ethnic adjective, and notes that excellent wine (called Mesygitis/Aromeus) comes from it, but it does not provide an origin or derivation of the toponym.

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Herodian overlaps

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Last updated: 2026-04-12 10:11:05 UTC