Βολίνη - Stephanos Ethnika

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Βολίνη, πόλις Ἀχαΐας, ὡς Ῥιανὸς ἐν Ἀχαϊκῶν δευτέρῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Βολιναῖος.

Boline: a city of Achaia, as Rhianos in the second of the Achaika. The ethnonym Bolinaios.

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	#119
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 174.14
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-08
Word count	11

Links

Place links	Bolina \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol1_434.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:5e7f1861601f28d1	*Translate as "X, book Y in his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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	X (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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	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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	Χ (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:c22408ee90fd1a1e	*Translate as "X, in book Y of his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS 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 1.333

char LCS 41 (69.5%) · word LCS 8 (72.7%)

Stephanos

Βολίνη, πόλις Ἀχαΐας, ὡς Ῥιανὸς ἐν Ἀχαϊκῶν δευτέρῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Βολιναῖος.

Herodian

…Κιλικίας. ἔστι δὲ καὶ πόλις πρὸς Ἑρμιόνῃ. Βιβλίνη χώρα Θρᾴκης. ἀπὸ ταύτης ὁ Βίβλινος οἶνος. οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ Βιβλίας ἀμπέλου. Σῆμος δ´ ὁ Δήλιος τὸν Νάξιόν φησιν, ἐπειδὴ Νάξου ποταμὸς Βίβλος. Βολβιτίνη πόλις Αἰγύπτου. Ἑκαταῖος. Βολίνη πόλις Ἀχαΐας, ὡς Ῥιανὸς ἐν Ἀχαϊκῶν δευτέρῳ. Βουλίνη πόλις περὶ Ἰλλυρίαν, ὥς φησιν Ἀρτεμίδωρος, ἀφ´ ἧς τὸ ἐθνικὸν Βουλῖνοι. Ἐλεφαντίνη πόλις Αἰγύπτου. Παρθένιος δὲ Ἐλεφαντίδα αὐτήν φησιν. Ἐχῖναι νῆσοι περὶ τὴν Αἰτωλίαν, αἷς Ἀχελῷος