Μωθώ - Stephanos Ethnika

Μωθώ OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

village

Μωθώ, κώμη Ἀραβίας, ἐν ᾗ ἔθανεν Ἀντίγονος ὁ Μακεδὼν ὑπὸ Ῥαβίλου τοῦ βασιλέως τῶν Ἀραβίων, ὡς Οὐράνιος ἐν πέμπτῳ. ὅ ἐστι τῇ Ἀράβων φωνῇ τόπος θανάτου. οἱ κωμῆται Μωθηνοί κατὰ τὸν ἐγχώριον τύπον.

Motho: a village of Arabia, in which Antigonos the Macedonian died at the hands of Rhabilos the king of the Arabians, as Ouranios in the fifth. Which is in the speech of the Arabs 'place of death'. The villagers Mothenoi by the native type.

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	#267
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 466.5
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-30
Word count	33

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Οὐράνιος (Ouranios)	FGrHist 675 F 25

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μωθώ	Mothō (village) · place
Ἀραβία	Arabia · place · corrected · Q57751375
Ἀντίοχος	Antiochus · person
Μακεδών	the Macedonian · people
Ῥαβῖλος	Rabilus (a king) · person
Ἄραβες	the Arabs · people
Μωθηνοί	the Mothenians (inhabitants of Mothō) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Borrowing Non Greek	which in the Arab tongue means 'place of death'
Morphological Composition	the villagers are called Mothēnoi according to the local (native) form

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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 · medium 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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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
Gloss	κώμη ἡ gloss:e14972622087326b	village Domain: SETTLEMENTS/STRUCTURES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.