Βαγίστανα - Stephanos Ethnika

Βαγίστανα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Βαγίστανα, πόλις τῆς Μηδίας. καὶ ὄρος Βαγίστανον. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Βαγιστανηνός.

Bagistana: a city in Media. And Mount Bagistanon. The ethnonym is 'Bagistanenos'.

Text Details

Entry	#8
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 155.8
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-07
Word count	10
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Βαγίστανα	Bagistana · place
Μηδία	Media · place
Βαγίστανον	Mount Bagistanon · place
Βαγιστανός	Bagistanian · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	“Bagistana: a city of Media; also a mountain, Bagistanon. The ethnic name is Bagistanos.” The entry identifies the place and its derived forms but does not explain the origin or formation of the name.

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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 (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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	ὄρος ὁ gloss:184051ff413f789d	mountain, mount (X ὄρος = 'Mount X') Domain: TERRAIN/LANDMASSES	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 1.383

char LCS 40 (65.6%) · word LCS 7 (70.0%)

Stephanos

Βαγίστανα, πόλις τῆς Μηδίας. καὶ ὄρος Βαγίστανον. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Βαγιστανηνός.

Herodian

…. Ἄμανον ὄρος πρὸς τῇ Κιλικίᾳ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ταύρου καθῆκον. ἱστοροῦσι δὲ τὸν Ὀρέστην ἀπὸ Ταύρων σὺν Ἰφιγενείᾳ τὴν Ἄρτεμιν κομίσαντα ἐν τούτῳ τῷ ὄρει τῆς μανίας λύσιν εὑρεῖν. ἔστι καὶ Ἄμμανα πόλις Συρίας ἡ ὕστερον Φιλαδέλφεια. Βαγίστανα πόλις τῆς Μηδίας καὶ ὄρος Βαγίστανον. Κάρβανα πόλις Λυκίας. Ῥαββατάμανα πόλις τῆς ὀρεινῆς Ἀραβίας. Σίμηνα πόλις Λυκίας, Τύμηνα κώμη Λυκίας. ἐκλήθη δὲ ἀπό τινος τράγου οὕτως ὀνομαζομένου, ὃς ἀπαλλασσόμενος ἀπὸ τοῦ αἰπολίου ἤρχετο τὸν πώγωνα βεβρεγμένος, ᾧ κ…