Μίσκερα - Stephanos Ethnika

Μίσκερα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Μίσκερα, πόλις Σικανίας. Θεόπομπος τεσσαρακοστῷ δευτέρῳ Φιλιππικῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μισκερεύς ὡς Μεγαρεύς.

Miskera: a city of Sikania. Theopompos in the forty-second of the Philippika. The ethnonym Miskereus as 'Megareus'.

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	#197
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 454.16
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count	11

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Θεόπομπος (Theopompus)	Φιλιππικῶν · FGrHist 115 F 198

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μίσκερα	Miskera (Miskera) · place
Σικανία	Sicania (Sicily region) · place · corrected · Q952123
Μισκερεύς	Miskereus (ethnic name of Miskera) · people
Μεγαρεύς	Megareus / Megarian (ethnic name of Megara) · people
Μίσκερα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q137944843 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	the ethnic name Μισκερεύς like Μεγαρεύς.

Links

Place links	Q137944843
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1487.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:5e7f1861601f28d1	*Translate as "X, book Y in his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative AUTHOR NAME)... + ὡς αὐτός formula:4caae33810f40dfa	Translate as "X... as per X." Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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) + 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 PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS 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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.386

char LCS 58 (67.4%) · word LCS 7 (58.3%)

Stephanos

Μίσκερα, πόλις Σικανίας. Θεόπομπος τεσσαρακοστῷ δευτέρῳ Φιλιππικῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μισκερεύς ὡς Μεγαρεύς.

Herodian

… μεγίστη, ὑπερκειμένη τῷ Κράγει ὄρει τῆς Λυκίας. Πολύαρα πόλις Καρίας. Σίγγαρα πόλις Ἀραβίας. Τάρφαρα πόλις τῆς εὐδαίμονος Ἀραβίας. ἔντερον, ἔλλερον τὸ κακόν, μέρμερον, κόλερον τὸ ἀκούρευτον πρόβατον, οἱ δὲ τραχὺ ἔριον. Μίσκερα πόλις Σικανίας. Θεόπομπος τεσσαρακοστῷ δευτέρῳ Φιλιππικῶν. Κασσίτερα νῆσος ἐν τῷ ὠκεανῷ, ἐξ ἧς ὁ κασσίτερος. Ἄπτερα πόλις Κρήτης, ἀπὸ τῆς τῶν Μουσῶν καὶ Σειρήνων ἔριδος, τῆς ἐν τῷ μουσείῳ πλησίον τῆς πόλεως καὶ τῆς θαλάσσης τόπῳ τοιῶσδε καλουμένῳ γενομένης, ἐν ᾧ μετὰ τὴν ἐν μο…