Μεγίστη - Stephanos Ethnika

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

Megiste: a city and island of Lycia, as the Polyhistor, from a certain Megisteus. The ethnonym Megisteus.

External translation supplied by Brady Kiesling; reported Claude Fable 5.5 translation. Credit: Brady Kiesling and the Stephanos project (Greg Baker, Gabriel Jower, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling). Not individually verified; exact Greek input not supplied.

Text Details

Entry	#109
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 439.17
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count	15

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
πολυίστωρ (the very learned / the much-knowing (author epithet))	FGrHist 273 F 129

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μεγίστη	Megiste (Kastellorizo) · place · corrected · Q441138
Λυκία	Lycia · place · corrected · Q18927
Μεγιστεύς	Megisteus (eponymous founder) · person
Μεγιστεύς	Megisteus (ethnic name / demonym) · other
Μεγίστη	place · explicit · wikidata: Q212096 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	from a certain Megisteus (i.e. named after a man called Megisteus)

Links

Place links	Kastellorizo \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1356.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (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
Formula	X (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
Formula	X (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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + 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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

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