Βελών - Stephanos Ethnika

Βελών OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Βελών, πόλις καὶ ποταμὸς ἐν τῇ Βαιτίκῃ τῆς Ἱσπανίας. ὁ πολίτης Βελώνιος.

Belon: a city and river in Baitike of Hispania. The citizen Belonios.

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	#64
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 162.4
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-08
Word count	12

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 · 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 1.30

char LCS 42 (72.4%) · word LCS 9 (75.0%)

Stephanos

Βελών, πόλις καὶ ποταμὸς ἐν τῇ Βαιτίκῃ τῆς Ἱσπανίας. ὁ πολίτης Βελώνιος.

Herodian

…μυλών ὡς τοπικὰ ὀξύνονται. ὁμοίως καὶ Αὐλών πόλις Λακωνικῆς, μία τῶν ἑκατόν. δευτέρα πόλις Ἀρκαδίας. τρίτη πόλις Κρήτης ἢ τόπος. ἔστι καὶ τόπος Ἀραβίας. ἔστι καὶ Αὐλών ὃν ἐπόλισαν Κροτωνιᾶται, ἥτις ὠνομάσθη Καυλωνία—καὶ Βελών πόλις καὶ ποταμὸς ἐν τῇ Βαιτίκῃ τῆς Ἱσπανίας. Τὰ εἰς 'λων' λήγοντα ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβὰς βαρύνονται μὴ ὄντα περιεκτικά, Ἀσκάλων πόλις Συρίας πρὸς τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ Ξάνθος ἐν τετάρτῃ Λυδιακῶν φησιν ὅτι Τάνταλος καὶ Ἄσκαλος παῖδες Ὑμεναίου. τὸν δὲ Ἄσκαλον ὑπὸ Ἀκιαμοῦ τοῦ Λυδῶν…