Γάγαι - Stephanos Ethnika

Γάγαι OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Γάγαι, πόλις Λυκίας, ἣν καὶ Παλαιὸν τεῖχος καὶ χώραν φησὶν Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν πρώτῃ Λυκιακῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Γαγαῖος.

Gagai: a city in Lykia, which Alexander, in book 1 of his Lykiaka, says is also 'Palaion teichos' and a territory. The ethnonym is 'Gagaios'.

Text Details

Entry	#7
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 192.9
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-09
Word count	17
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀλέξανδρος (Alexander)	Λυκιακά (Lykian matters) · FGrHist 273 F 48
Λυκιακά (Lykian matters)	Λυκιακά (Lykian matters) · FGrHist 273 F 48

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Γάγαι	Gagai · place
Λυκία	Lycia · place
Παλαιὸν τεῖχος	Old Wall · place
Γαγαῖος	Gagaian · people
Γάγαι	place · explicit · wikidata: Q6029441 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	Gagai: a city of Lycia, which Alexander, in the first book of his Lycian History, says is also called ‘Old Wall’ and ‘territory/country.’

Links

Place links	Gagae \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol1_466.jpg
Review	Open review page

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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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
Formula	καί + X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + Y (nominative PROPER NOUN) formula:0af867b3dd6df580	Translate as "Y is also 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES 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
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	τεῖχος τό gloss:e184afb0551538f4	wall, fortification, barrier Domain: SETTLEMENTS/STRUCTURES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.309

char LCS 73 (83.0%) · word LCS 14 (82.4%)

Stephanos

Γάγαι, πόλις Λυκίας, ἣν καὶ Παλαιὸν τεῖχος καὶ χώραν φησὶν Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν πρώτῃ Λυκιακῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Γαγαῖος.

Herodian

…μονίων. Πέργη πόλις Παμφυλίας. Βάργη ἡ μήτηρ Βαργάσου, ἀφ´ οὗ Βάργασα πόλις Καρίας. Γάργη πόλις Λιβύης ὡς πολυίστωρ ἐν τρίτῃ Λιβυκῶν. Βέλγη, ἀφ´ οὗ Βελγίκη ἡ χώρα ὡς Ἀκτή Ἀττική. Θίγγη πόλις Λιβύης. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει. Γάγαι πόλις Λυκίας, ἣν καὶ Παλαιὸν τεῖχος καὶ χώραν φησὶν Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν πρώτῃ Λυκιακῶν. Τὰ εἰς 'γη' ἰαμβικὰ ῥηματικὰ ὄντα ὀξύνεται, ταγή ἀπὸ τοῦ τάσσω, φυγή, σφαγή. παρώνυμα δὲ βαρύνεται, πάγη, τρύγη, στέγη. τὸ μέντοι σαγή τὸ πλῆθος ὡς σφαγή ὀξύνεται, τινὲς δὲ βαρύνουσι. καὶ τὸ