Μοτιηνή - Stephanos Ethnika

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Μοτιηνή, χωρίον Ἰβηρίας, ἄποικος Ῥωμαίων. Πολύβιος τρίτῳ. Φλέγων δὲ Μουτίνην αὐτήν φησι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μοτιναῖος.

Motiene: a place of Iberia, a colony of Romans. Polybios in the third. Phlegon calls it Moutine. The ethnonym Motinaios.

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	#215
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 457.5
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count	15

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Πολύβιος (Polybius)	γ̄ (3,40,8)
Φλεγών (Phlegon)	FGrHist 257 F 28

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μοτίνη	Motine (place) · place
Μοτίνη	Motine (acc. form) · place
Ἰβηρία	Iberia (region) · place · corrected · Q1203967
Ῥωμαῖοι	Romans · people
Μοτιναῖος	Motinaean (ethnic name) · people
Μοτιηνή	place · place · explicit · wikidata: Q138010855 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Q138010855
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1508.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 (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
Gloss	ἄποικος ὁ gloss:f19d7fe719703a7b	settlement Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χωρίον τό gloss:619c2907ea980b25	locality; point (only in μέσα χωρία: ‘halfway point’) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL 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 1.334

char LCS 55 (61.1%) · word LCS 9 (60.0%)

Stephanos

Μοτιηνή, χωρίον Ἰβηρίας, ἄποικος Ῥωμαίων. Πολύβιος τρίτῳ. Φλέγων δὲ Μουτίνην αὐτήν φησι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μοτιναῖος.

Herodian

…. Ἀπολλόδωρος δὲ ἀπὸ Ἐχίνου μάντεως. Καινίνη πόλις Σαβίνων ἡ ὑπὸ Ῥωμύλου ἁλοῦσα. Λιγυστίνη πόλις Λιγύων τῆς δυτικῆς Ἰβηρίας ἐγγὺς καὶ τῆς Ταρτησσοῦ πλησίον. Πλινθίνη πόλις τῆς Αἰγυπτίας ἐπὶ τῆς Μαρείας. Μοτίνη πόλις Ἰταλίας, ἄποικος Ῥωμαίων. Πολύβιος τρίτῳ (c. 40, 8)· Φλέγων δὲ Μουτίνην αὐτήν φησι. Σαβίνη ἐπὶ τῆς γυναικὸς καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς χώρας. Σιβερίνη πόλις Οἰνωτρῶν. τὸ δὲ ἐχινῆ ἡ τραχεῖα δορὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐχινέα γέγονε, διὸ περισπᾶται. τὸ δὲ Φωτεινή κύριον διὰ τῆς 'ει' διφθόγγου γραφόμενον ὀξύνεται. μετάγεται γὰρ ἀπὸ ἐ…