Μεγίστη

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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Μεγίστη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
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Μεγίστη, πόλις καὶ νῆσος τῆς Λυκίας, ὡς ὁ πολυίστωρ, ἀπὸ Μεγιστέως τινός. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεγιστεύς.

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Text Details

Entry#109
Greek textmeineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source idMeineke 439.17
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count15

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
πολυίστωρ (the very learned / the much-knowing (author epithet))FGrHist 273 F 129
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΜεγίστηMegiste (Kastellorizo) · place · corrected · Q441138
ΛυκίαLycia · place · corrected · Q18927
ΜεγιστεύςMegisteus (eponymous founder) · person
ΜεγιστεύςMegisteus (ethnic name / demonym) · other
Μεγίστηplace · explicit · wikidata: Q212096 · seeded_headword_alignment
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Eponym Personfrom a certain Megisteus (i.e. named after a man called Megisteus)

Links

Place linksKastellorizo | 📍 Map | Pleiades
Page scanse9783110219630_i1356.jpg
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Translation Guidance

KindRuleGuidanceDetection
FormulaX (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN)
formula:439629f16cfaba3f
Translate as "Y is from 'X'"
Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
FormulaX (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON)
formula:4e7b910409d678a8
Translate as "'X' is from Y"
Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
FormulaX (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN)
formula:276bf314e3ad9973
Translate as "X, X"
Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
FormulaX (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON)
formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d
Translate as "X... after Y"
Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
FormulaX (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH)
formula:1bb0974b95264dde
Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'"
Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
FormulaX (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION)
formula:1040044f9f2bf616
Translate as "a X in Y"
Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formulaτὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM)
formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3
Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'"
Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formulaὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN)
formula:7163e35f4bd326d9
Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X"
Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.344
char LCS 31 (40.8%) · word LCS 7 (46.7%)
Stephanos
Μεγίστη, πόλις καὶ νῆσος τῆς Λυκίας, ὡς ὁ πολυίστωρ, ἀπὸ Μεγιστέως τινός. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεγιστεύς.
Herodian
… Τὰ εἰς 'τη' ὑπερδισύλλαβα ἔχοντα κατὰ σύλληψιν σύμφωνον ἢ πρὸ τέλους τὸ 'ρ' κύρια ὄντα βαρύνεται, Ἀδρήστη, Ἰοκάστη. Ὀρέστη πόλις Εὐβοίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπης περιηγήσει. Ἀκέστη πόλις Σικελίας καὶ Ἄγεστα, παρὰ τὸν Ἀκέστην. Μεγίστη πόλις καὶ νῆσος τῆς Λυκίας, ὡς πολυίστωρ, ἀπὸ Μεγιστέως τινός. Δολιχίστη· οὕτως Ἀλέξανδρος

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