Βάβρας

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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village
Βάβρας, πολίχνιον Αἰολίδος ἐγγὺς Χίου. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Βαβράντιος, ἀπὸ Βάβραντος. εὕρηται καὶ ἰσοσύλλαβος ἡ κλίσις ἐν ἀστιγεῖ βιβλίῳ.

Babras: a town in Aiolis near Chios. The ethnonym is 'Babrantios', from 'Babrantos'. The isosyllabic declension is also found in an unpunctuated book.

Text Details

Entry#4
Greek textmeineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source idMeineke 154.11
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-07
Word count18
AI translationgpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΒάβραςBabras · place
ΑἰολίςAeolis · place
ΧίοςChios · place
ΒαβράντιοςBabrasian (inhabitant of Babras) · people
ΒάβραςBabras · place
Babras in Aiolisplace · town · Aiolis, near Chios · explicit · unresolved
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Unclear MetalinguisticThe ethnic form is Babrantios, derived from Babrantos.

Links

Place linksArchaeological site of Daskalopetra | 📍 Map | Pleiades
Page scansvol1_396.jpg
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Translation Guidance

KindRuleGuidanceDetection
FormulaX (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
FormulaX (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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
FormulaX (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
FormulaX (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
FormulaX (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE)
formula:0a6d211492d74a05
Translate as "a X of the Y"
Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
FormulaX (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
Formulaτὸ 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
Glossἐθνικόν τό
gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a
ethnonym
Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Glossπολίχνιον τό
gloss:0f72866d544a72aa
town
Domain: SETTLEMENTS/STRUCTURES
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.56
char LCS 32 (30.2%) · word LCS 5 (27.8%)
Stephanos
Βάβρας, πολίχνιον Αἰολίδος ἐγγὺς Χίου. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Βαβράντιος, ἀπὸ Βάβραντος. εὕρηται καὶ ἰσοσύλλαβος ἡ κλίσις ἐν ἀστιγεῖ βιβλίῳ.
Herodian
…ῶς. Κάρας. Λάρας. Πείρας. Καίρρας. Ἱμέρας ποταμός, ὡς Νικάνωρ. Χρυσαόρας ποταμὸς Λυδίας. Φαναγόρας. Πυθαγόρας. Σιμμόρας. Ξεναγόρας. Κύδρας. Κόδρας. Λάμπρας. Πρόφρας. Τεύθρας ὁ Πανδίονος, Τίθρας δῆμος τῆς Αἰγηΐδος φυλῆς, Βάβρας πολίχνιον Αἰολίδος ἐγγὺς Χίου ὁμώνυμον τῷ κτιστῇ. Κοψίφρας. τὸ δὲ Μητρᾶς Ἡρᾶς τετρᾶς βορρᾶς περισπᾶται. τὸ δὲ τετράς τετράδος συστέλλεται. * Τὰ εἰς 'σας' βαρύνεται, εἰ μὴ ἀπὸ συμβεβηκότος εἴη Χρύσας, Βαρβύσας, Κέρσας, Πετίσας, Ἀπέσας ὄρος τῆς Νεμέας…

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