Μήκιστον - Stephanos Ethnika

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Μήκιστον, πόλις Τριφυλίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη τῆς Ἤλιδος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μηκίστιος.

Mekiston: a city of Triphylia. Hekataios in the Europe. There is also another of Elis. The ethnonym Mekistios.

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	#174
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 450.3
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count	13

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Εὐρώπῃ · FGrHist 1 F 122

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μήκιστον	Mēkiston (Mekiston) · place · corrected · Q111086985
Τριφυλία	Triphylia · place · corrected · Q472032
Εὐρώπη	Europe · place
Ἤλις	Elis · place · corrected · Q6536845
Μηκίστιος	Mekistios (ethnic/demonym) · people
Mēkiston in Triphylia	place · city · Triphylia · explicit · unresolved
Mēkiston in Elis	place · city · Elis · implicit · unresolved

Links

Place links	Athena temple of Skillountia \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1462.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 (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 · 2 scan rows · 3 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
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 1.390

char LCS 56 (75.7%) · word LCS 10 (76.9%)

Stephanos

Μήκιστον, πόλις Τριφυλίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη τῆς Ἤλιδος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μηκίστιος.

Herodian

…πάρτον καὶ Σπάρτον ὄρος πλησίον τοῦ Εὐξείνου πόντου. τὸ μέντοι παλτόν τὸ δόρυ ὀξύνεται. Τὰ εἰς 'τον' ὑπερδισύλλαβα βαρύνεται, πρόβατον, ἔγκατον, ἄλφιτον, γίγαρτον. Ἔμβατον τόπος τῆς Ἐρυθραίας. Θεόπομπος Ἑλληνικῶν ὀγδόῃ. Μήκιστον πόλις Τριφυλίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη τῆς Ἤλιδος. Πρόσπαλτα δῆμος Ἀκαμαντίδος φυλῆς. Σάραπτα πόλις Φοινίκης. Μαννάκαρτα πόλις Ἀραβίας. Ἀλύαττα χωρίον Βιθυνίας ἀπὸ Ἀλυάττου κρατήσαντος τὸν τόπον. Ἀρτάξατα πόλις Ἀρμενίας. Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. ἣν καὶ Ἀρταξιάσατα καλοῦσι. λέ…

Herodian 1.33

char LCS 26 (35.1%) · word LCS 5 (38.5%)

Stephanos

Μήκιστον, πόλις Τριφυλίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη τῆς Ἤλιδος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μηκίστιος.

Herodian

…κόν, ὃ ἑρμηνεύεται, ὡς ὁ πολυίστωρ φησίν, ἀγρίους τινὰς ἢ μαχίμους καὶ χαλεπούς. Δάφνων, Ἅγνων. Σέννων ἔθνος Γαλατικόν. τὸ Κραννών ὡς ἐπὶ πόλεως ὀξύνεται· ἔστι δὲ πόλις τῆς Θεσσαλίας τῆς Πελασγιώτιδος ἐν τοῖς Τέμπεσιν, ὡς Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη πόλις Ἀθαμανίας ἀπὸ Κραννῶνος τοῦ Πελασγοῦ. καὶ τὸ δαφνών ὡς περιεκτικόν. Τὰ εἰς 'νων' ἔχοντα τὴν πρὸ τέλους εἰς φωνῆεν ἢ φωνήεντα λήγοντα, εἰ μὴ τοπικὰ εἴη, βαρύνεται καὶ τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'ονος' ὡς ἀμείνων