Ἄωρος - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἄωρος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Ἄωρος, πόλις Κρήτης, ἀπὸ Ἀώρας νύμφης. μετωνομάσθη δ´ Ἐλευθήρα ἀπὸ Ἐλευθῆρος ἑνὸς τῶν Κουρήτων. ὁ πολίτης Ἀώριος, ἢ Ἀωρίτης ὡς Ἀλωρίτης.

Aoros: a city of Crete, from the nymph Aora. It was renamed Eleuthera from Eleuther, one of the Kouretes. The citizen Aorios, or Aorites as 'Alorites'.

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	#581
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 154.3
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-07
Word count	21

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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 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 · 2 occurrences
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 · 2 occurrences
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 · 1 scan row · 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	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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.260

char LCS 27 (24.8%) · word LCS 5 (23.8%)

Stephanos

Ἄωρος, πόλις Κρήτης, ἀπὸ Ἀώρας νύμφης. μετωνομάσθη δ´ Ἐλευθήρα ἀπὸ Ἐλευθῆρος ἑνὸς τῶν Κουρήτων. ὁ πολίτης Ἀώριος, ἢ Ἀωρίτης ὡς Ἀλωρίτης.

Herodian

…ι, εἴτε κύριον εἴτε ἐπιθετικὸν εἴη ὡς καὶ Ἱερά· οὕτως γὰρ ἐκλήθη ἡ Τάρσος πόλις. καὶ τὸ περιστερὰ τετρασύλλαβον καὶ τὸ Ἐλευθεραί πληθυντικῶς λεγόμενον. ἔστι δὲ πόλις Βοιωτίας ἀπὸ Ἐλευθῆρος τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος· ἔστι καὶ Κρήτης ἀπὸ Ἐλευθῆρος ἑνὸς τῶν Κουρήτων, ἥτις καὶ Σάωρος ἐκαλεῖτο ἀπὸ Σαώρης νύμφης. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη ἐπὶ τῷ Ἴστρῳ ποταμῷ ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ διὰ τὸ φυγόντας Αἰήτην τοὺς περὶ Ἰάσονα ἐκεῖ τοῦ φόβου ἐλευθερωθῆναι. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Λυκίας ἀπότινος νύμφης. * Τὰ εἰς 'ηρα' ὑπερ…