Μολορχία - Stephanos Ethnika

Μολορχία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Μολορχία, πόλις Νεμέας, ἀπὸ Μολόρχου τοῦ ξενίσαντος Ἡρακλέα ἀπιόντα ἐπὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μολορχίτης.

Molorchia: a city of Nemea, from Molorchos who entertained Herakles as he went off to the contest. The ethnonym Molorchites.

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	#202
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 455.6
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count	15

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μολορχία	Molorchia · place
Νεμέα	Nemea · place · corrected · Q748108
Μολόρκος	Molorkos · person
Ἡρακλῆς	Heracles · person · corrected · Q122248
Μολορχίτης	Molorchite (ethnic) · people
Μολορχία	place · explicit · wikidata: Q137998363 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	From Molorkus, who hosted/received Heracles when he went to the contest

Links

Place links	Q137998363
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1491.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 · 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 (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 · 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 1.289

char LCS 68 (78.2%) · word LCS 12 (80.0%)

Stephanos

Μολορχία, πόλις Νεμέας, ἀπὸ Μολόρχου τοῦ ξενίσαντος Ἡρακλέα ἀπιόντα ἐπὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μολορχίτης.

Herodian

…ικῆς γῆς. καὶ ἄλλη ἐν Ἀρκαδίᾳ. Μελανδία χώρα Σιθωνίας. Θεόπομπος τριακοστῷ τρίτῳ Φιλιππικῶν. Μεσσαπία χώρα Ἰαπυγίας προσεχὴς Τάραντι. Μηδία χώρα ταῖς Κασπίαις παρακεκλιμένη πύλαις. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. ἀπὸ Μήδου υἱοῦ Μηδείας. Μολορχία πόλις Νεμέας ἀπὸ Μολόρχου τοῦ ξενίσαντος Ἡρακλέα ἀπιόντα ἐπὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα. Μουνυχία λιμὴν Ἀττικῆς ἀπὸ Μονύχου. λέγεται καὶ Μωνυχία. Μοψοπία ἡ Ἀττικὴ ἀπὸ Μόψοπος, Καλλίμαχος. Μυλαντία ἄκρα ἐν Καμίρῳ τῆς Ῥόδου ἀπὸ Μύλαντος τοῦ πρώτου εὑρόντος ἐν τῷ βίῳ τὴν τοῦ μύλου χρῆσιν. Μασαισυλία χώρα Λιβύ…