Μοτύλαι - Stephanos Ethnika

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Μοτύλαι, Σικελίας φρούριον παρὰ τὴν Μοτύην. Φίλιστος Σικελικῶν πέμπτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μοτυλαῖος.

Motylai: a fort of Sicily beside Motye. Philistos in the fifth of the Sikelika. The ethnonym Motylaios.

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	#217
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 457.12
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count	12

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Φίλιστος (Philistos (Philistus))	Σικελικῶν · FGrHist 556 F 22

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μοτύλαι	Motylai / Motylae · place
Σικελία	Sicily · place · corrected · Q4951156
Μοτύη	Motye / Motya · place · corrected · Q962184
Μοτυλαῖος	Motylaean (ethnic) · people

Links

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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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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	γένος τό gloss:c746b76469e4485d	descent Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	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	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἱστορικός ὁ gloss:f02a916b8e56ad5f	scholar (note Steph. doesn't use σχολαστικός) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	φρούριον τό gloss:a6e2b628860e5a07	fortress Domain: SETTLEMENTS/STRUCTURES	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 1.323

char LCS 60 (77.9%) · word LCS 9 (75.0%)

Stephanos

Μοτύλαι, Σικελίας φρούριον παρὰ τὴν Μοτύην. Φίλιστος Σικελικῶν πέμπτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μοτυλαῖος.

Herodian

…ύλη πόλις Θρᾴκης οὐ πόρρω τῆς τῶν Ἀστῶν χώρας. Πολύβιος τρισκαιδεκάτῃ. Καρδαμύλη πόλις Μεσσηνίας. Ὅμηρος »Καρδαμύλην Ἐνόπην τε« (Il. Ι 150). Ἡρόδοτος ( 8, 73) δὲ Λακωνικὴν αὐτήν φησιν. ἔοικε δ´ ἑτέρα εἶναι πλησίον Χίου. Μοτύλαι Σικελίας φρούριον. παρὰ τὴν Μοτύην. Φίλιστος Σικελικῶν πέμπτῳ. Τριφύλη ἡ Κλυτίου μήτηρ. Παμφύλη θυγάτηρ Ῥακίου καὶ Μαντοῦς. Στρογγύλη μία τῶν ἑπτὰ Αἰόλου νήσων »ἀπὸ τοῦ σχήματος καλουμένη, καὶ φλογὸς μὲν λειπομένη, φέγγους δὲ μετέχουσα«. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη πρὸς τῇ Λυκίᾳ. Σκαπτησύλη πόλις …