Ἀσπαλάθεια - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ἀσπαλάθεια, πόλις Ταφίων. Νίκανδρος ἑτεροιουμένων πρώτῃ “Ἀσπαλάθεια βοήροτος”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἀσπαλαθεύς.

Aspalatheia: a city of the Taphians. Nikandros in the first of the Heteroioumena: "Aspalatheia ploughed by oxen". The ethnonym Aspalatheus.

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	#482
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 134.5
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-06
Word count	11

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.277

char LCS 66 (77.6%) · word LCS 8 (72.7%)

Stephanos

Ἀσπαλάθεια, πόλις Ταφίων. Νίκανδρος ἑτεροιουμένων πρώτῃ “Ἀσπαλάθεια βοήροτος”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἀσπαλαθεύς.

Herodian

…αοδίκης Λαοδίκειαν, ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς γυναικὸς Νύσης Νῦσαν, ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς μητρὸς Ἀντιοχίδος Ἀντιόχειαν». δωδεκάτη ἐν τῇ Μαργιανῇ Παρθυαίων. Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. τρισκαιδεκάτη ἡ Ταρσός. τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτη Ἰσαυρίας ἡ Λαμπωτὶς λεγομένη. Ἀσπαλάθεια πόλις Ταφίων. Νίκανδρος ἑτεροιουμένων πρώτῃ «Ἀσπαλάθεια βοήροτος». Ἀττάλεια πόλις Λυδίας. Ἁγνώνεια πόλις Θρᾴκης πλησίον Ἀμφιπόλεως, Ἅγνωνος κτίσμα τοῦ στρατηγοῦ τῶν Ἀθηναίων. Αἰξώνεια πόλις Μαγνησίας. Ἀκαδήμεια γυμνάσιον Ἀθήνησιν ἀπὸ Ἀκαδήμου. γράφεται καὶ διὰ τοῦ 'ε' Ἐκαδήμεια· οἱ δ…