Βρῖσα - Stephanos Ethnika

Βρῖσα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Βρῖσα, ἄκρα Λέσβου, ἐν ᾗ ἵδρυται Διόνυσος Βρισαῖος.

Brisa: a headland of Lesbos, on which is established Dionysos Brisaios.

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	#173
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 186.20
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-09
Word count	8

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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	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

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.266

char LCS 41 (100.0%) · word LCS 8 (100.0%)

Stephanos

Βρῖσα, ἄκρα Λέσβου, ἐν ᾗ ἵδρυται Διόνυσος Βρισαῖος.

Herodian

…καὶ κρήνη τῆς Ὀλυμπίας. ἔστι καὶ χωρίον, ἐν ᾧ τοῦ Διὸς ναὸς ἵδρυται καὶ ὁ Ὀλυμπιακὸς ἀγὼν ἐπιτελεῖται. παρὰ τὸν πίσω μέλλοντα, οὗ ἡ χρῆσις παρὰ Πινδάρῳ. Πίνδαρος δὲ κατὰ συστολὴν τὴν πόλιν εἶπε Πίσαν. Βῖσα πόλις Θρᾴκης. Βρῖσα ἄκρα Λέσβου, ἐν ᾗ ἵδρυται Διόνυσος Βρισαῖος. Νῖσα ἡ πόλις. Νῦσα πόλεις πολλαί, ἐν Ἑλικῶνι, ἐν Θρᾴκῃ, ἐν Καρίᾳ, ἐν Ἀραβίᾳ, ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ, ἐν Νάξῳ, ἐν Ἰνδοῖς, ἐπὶ τοῦ Καυκάσου ὄρους, ἐν Εὐβοίᾳ. φῦσα, βῆσσα καὶ Βῆσα πόλις Λοκρῶν δι´ ἑνὸς 'σ', Ἀπολλόδωρος δὲ καὶ Ἐπαφρόδ…