Μετάχοιον - Stephanos Ethnika

Μετάχοιον OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Μετάχοιον, φρούριον Βοιωτίας μεταξὺ Ὀρχομενοῦ καὶ Κορωνείας. Ἔφορος τριακοστῷ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ἐκ Μεταχοίου, ὡς τὸ ἐξ Οἴου, [Οἶον δὲ δῆμος τῆς Ἀττικῆς] ὡς λέλεκται· ἢ Μεταχοιάτης· καὶ γὰρ Οἶος πολίχνιον, ἧς τὸ ἐθνικὸν Οἰάτης. Ἀνδροτίων δὲ ἐν τῷ ζʹ Μετάχοιρον αὐτῶν φησὶ καὶ ἴσως περιφραστικῶς.

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Text Details

Entry	#169
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 448.19 · Billerbeck Μ169
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count	47
Translation status	Most differences are mechanical: numeral notation for 'thirtieth', punctuation/bracketing, minor orthographic variants, and a duplicated genitive phrase in Billerbeck that Meineke omits. Crucially, the pronoun differs (αὐτήν vs αὐτῶν), which alters the referent.

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἔφορος (Ephorus)	FGrHist 70 F 94b
Ἀνδρότιων (Androtion)	FGrHist 324 F 29

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μετάχοιoν	Metachoion · place
Βοιωτία	Boeotia · place
Ὀρχομενός	Orchomenus · place
Κορώνεια	Coroneia · place
Οἶος	Oios (Oion) · place
Οἶον	Oion (dēmos in Attica) · place
Ἀττική	Attica · place
Μεταχοιάτης	Metachoiates (demonym) · people
Οἰάτης	Oiates (demonym) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon (demonym) is formed from 'Μεταχόιον' (i.e. derived from Μεταχοῖον), similar to how the ethnicon from Οἶος is 'Ὑξ Οἴου' / 'Οἰάτης'; alternatively 'Μεταχοιάτης' is given. Androtion calls it 'Μετάχοιρον', perhaps periphrastically.

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Herodian overlaps

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char LCS 67 (29.0%) · word LCS 9 (20.0%)

Stephanos

Μετάχοιον, φρούριον Βοιωτίας μεταξὺ Ὀρχομενοῦ καὶ Κορωνείας. Ἔφορος τριακοστῷ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ἐκ Μεταχοίου, ὡς τὸ ἐξ Οἴου, [Οἶον δὲ δῆμος τῆς Ἀττικῆς] ὡς λέλεκται· ἢ Μεταχοιάτης· καὶ γὰρ Οἶος πολίχνιον, ἧς τὸ ἐθνικὸν Οἰάτης. Ἀνδροτίων δὲ ἐν τῷ ζʹ Μετάχοιρον αὐτῶν φησὶ καὶ ἴσως περιφραστικῶς.

Herodian

…περδισύλλαβα μονογενῆ τῇ 'οι' διφθόγγῳ παραληγόμενα ἢ τῇ 'ῳ' ταύτην ἔχουσι τὴν διαίρεσιν· προπαροξύνεται μέν, ὅσα σύνθετά ἐστι, ὑπεσταλμένων τῶν ἀπὸ προθέσεως, Ἀκρόθοιον, ᾧ ἠκολούθησε καὶ τὸ Βάλοιον πόλις Μακεδονίας καὶ Μετάχοιον φρούριον Βοιωτίας μεταξὺ Ὀρχομενοῦ καὶ Κορωνείας. Ἔφορος τριακοστῷ. καὶ Σίντοιον φρούριον Ἀρμενίας κτίσμα Γαλατῶν. ἑκατόμβοιον, εἰκοσάβοιον, πεντηκοσάβοιον, ἐννεάβοιον. τὸ δὲ μητρῷον, ἡρῷον, ὑπερῷον προπερισπᾶται, ὥσπερ καὶ τὰ ἀρσενικά. τὸ δὲ περίστῳον προπαροξύνεται· τὸ δὲ προστῷον πρ…