Βαστάρναι - Stephanos Ethnika

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Βαστάρναι, ἔθνος ὑπὲρ τὸν Ἴστρον οἰκοῦν. Διονύσιος ἐν περιηγήσει πολλὰ μάλ´ ἑξείης Μαιώτιδος ἐς στόμα λίμνης, Γερμανοὶ Σαμάται τε Γέται θ´ ἅμα Βαστάρναι τε.

Bastarnai: a people dwelling beyond the Istros. Dionysios, in his Periegesis:

Very many in succession towards the mouth of Lake Maiotis:
Germanoi, Samatai, Getai and Bastarnai together.

AI translation — gpt-6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#51
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 160.7
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-07
Word count	24
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Διονύσιος (Dionysius)	Περιήγησις · fr. 303 f.

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Βαστάρναι	Bastarnae · people
Ἴστρος	Danube (Ister) · place
Μαιῶτις	Sea of Azov (Maeotis) · place
Γερμαντοί	Germans (German tooi) · people
Σαμάται	Sarmatians · people
Γέται	Getae · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	‘Bastarnae’: a people dwelling beyond the Ister (Danube). This identifies the people and their location but does not explain the origin of the name.
Unclear Metalinguistic	Dionysius, in the Periegesis (lines 303f.), says: ‘... the Germani, Sarmatians, Getae, and Bastarnae together.’ This is merely a poetic attestation of the name, not an etymological explanation.

Links

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative BOOK NAME) formula:c795eaabedf9a542	*Translate as "Χ, in his Y"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people 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.

Herodian 1.70

char LCS 24 (18.9%) · word LCS 5 (20.8%)

Stephanos

Βαστάρναι, ἔθνος ὑπὲρ τὸν Ἴστρον οἰκοῦν. Διονύσιος ἐν περιηγήσει πολλὰ μάλ´ ἑξείης Μαιώτιδος ἐς στόμα λίμνης, Γερμανοὶ Σαμάται τε Γέται θ´ ἅμα Βαστάρναι τε.

Herodian

…τι τὰ εἰς 'ανης' κύρια, Τιγράνης, Ἰορδάνης, Ἐξοστάνης, Ἀϊάνης, Βαρδάνης, Ἀριστοφάνης, Θεοφάνης. τὸ δὲ ἐπίθετον θεοφανής ὀξύνεται. καὶ τὰ εἰς 'αννης' διὰ δύο 'νν' Ὀρθάννης. καὶ τὰ εἰς 'νης' παραληγόμενα τῷ 'ρ'. Βαστάρνης ἔθνος ὑπὲρ τὸν Ἴστρον οἰκοῦν. καὶ τὰ εἰς 'ης' Περσικὰ πάντα, Ἀρταφέρνης, Ἰνταφέρνης. * Τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'ενης' κύρια βαρύνονται, Δημοσθένης, Διογένης, Ἀντιγένης, Ἀριστομένης, Βορυσθένης πόλις καὶ ποταμὸς τοῦ Πόντου παρὰ τὴν Μαιῶτιν λίμνην καὶ Τάναϊν τὸν …