Μόψου ἑστία - Stephanos Ethnika

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Μόψου ἑστία, [πόλις] Κιλικίας ἐπὶ τῷ Πυράμῳ ποταμῷ, ἀπὸ Μόψου τοῦ μάντεως. ὁ πολίτης Μοψεάτης, κατὰ παραγωγὴν μιᾶς τῶν λέξεων. ἀφ´ οὗ ὁ γραμματικὸς Ἡρακλείδης ὁ Μοψεάτης.

Mopsou hestia: of Cilicia on the river Pyramos, from Mopsos the seer. The citizen Mopseates, by derivation from one of the words. From which the grammarian Herakleides the Mopseatan.

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	#225
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 459.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-29
Word count	27

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μόψος	Mopsus · person · corrected · Q1887300
Κιλικία	Cilicia · place · corrected · Q620864
Πύραμος	Pyramus (river) · place · corrected · Q1057961
Μοψεάτης	Mopseates (inhabitant of Mopsus) · people
Ἡρακλείδης	Heraclides · person
Μόψου ἑστία	place · explicit · wikidata: Q555923 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	from Mopsus the seer (i.e., named after Mopsus, the seer)
Morphological Composition	the citizen (demonym) 'Mopseates', by derivation (formed by derivational morphology from the root/word)
Unclear Metalinguistic	from whom the grammarian Heraclides is called 'the Mopseates' (an attestation of the derived form)

Links

Place links	Mopsuestia \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1527.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	[NO ANTECEDENT] + ἀφ' οὗ + Y (DERIVED NOUN) formula:85dbc02f91e20d41	Translate as "as per 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form '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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	πολίτης ὁ gloss:1c7dda400d7265cb	citizen 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.

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.