Μύρσινος - Stephanos Ethnika

Μύρσινος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Μύρσινος, πόλις Ἤλιδος. “καὶ Μύρσινος ἐσχατόωσα”. ὕστερον δὲ Μυρτούντιον ἐκλήθη. τὸ ἐθνικὸν εὕρηται Μυρτούσιος.

Myrsinos: a city of Elis. "and Myrsinos on the border". Later it was called Myrtountion. The ethnonym is found Myrtousios.

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	#257
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 464.14
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count	15

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μύρσινος	Myrsinos (Myrsinus) · place · corrected · Q56679041
Ἤλις	Elis · place · corrected · Q6536845
Μυρτούντιον	Myrtountion (later name) · place
Μυρτούσιος	Myrtousios (ethnic/demonym) · people
Μύρσινος	place · explicit · wikidata: Q56679041 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	Myrsinus: a city of Elis.
Unclear Metalinguistic	"and Myrsinos, the outermost." (B 616)
Unclear Metalinguistic	but later it was called Myrtountion.
Unclear Metalinguistic	the ethnicon is found as Myrtousios.

Links

Place links	Myrtuntium \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1567.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	καλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται/ἐκλήθη (ἀπο...) gloss:ef7a95cd709173ed	is/used to be/is/was called/named after (+ ἀπο) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	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 1.182

char LCS 39 (42.9%) · word LCS 6 (42.9%)

Stephanos

Μύρσινος, πόλις Ἤλιδος. “καὶ Μύρσινος ἐσχατόωσα”. ὕστερον δὲ Μυρτούντιον ἐκλήθη. τὸ ἐθνικὸν εὕρηται Μυρτούσιος.

Herodian

… κρίθινος, δάφνινος, φήγινος, πύρινος, ξύλινος, λίθινος, δρύϊνος, πέτρινος, γήϊνος, δερμάτινος, βύσσινος. τούτοις ὅμοια καὶ τὸ κότινος καὶ κόφινος προσηγορικὰ καὶ τὰ κύρια, Σίκινος νῆσος περὶ τὴν Κρήτην. Στράβων δεκάτῃ. Μύρσινος πόλις Ἤλιδος «καὶ Μύρσινος ἐσχατόωσα» (Β 616) καὶ τὰ κτητικὰ Βίβλινος «Βίβλινος οἶνος» ἀπὸ Βιβλίνης χώρας Θρᾴκης. Βολβίτινος «Βολβίτινον ἅρμα» ἀπὸ Βολβιτίνης πόλεως Αἰγύπτου. τὰ μέντοι ἐπὶ καιροῦ ἢ ἀπὸ ἐπιρρήματος ὀξύνεται οἷον θερινός, χειμερινός, ἐαρινός…