Νικωνία - Stephanos Ethnika

Νικωνία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Νικωνία, πόλις ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ πρὸς ταῖς ἐκβολαῖς τοῦ Ἴστρου. Στράβων ἑβδόμῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νικωνιάτης ὡς Ῥιθυμνιάτης.

Nikonia: a city in the Pontos near the mouths of the Istros. Strabo in the seventh. The ethnonym Nikoniates as 'Rhithymniates'.

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	#60
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 476.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count	17

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	ζ̅ (7,3,16 [C 306,5])

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Νικωνία	Nikonia (city) · place · corrected · Q2075617
Πόντος	Pontus (the Black Sea/region) · place · corrected · Q621672
Ἴστρος	Ister (the Danube River) · place
Νικωνιάτης	Nicōniate (native of Nikonia) · people
Ῥιθυμνιάτης	Rithymniate (native of Rithymna) · people
Νικωνία	place · explicit · wikidata: Q2075617 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book 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 · 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 · 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	X... + πρός + Y (dative) formula:1a524ea80fe79519	Translate as "X... near 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
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (definite ARTICLE + ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:bcd70ae781e7b205	Translate as "just as 'Y' is from the name X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:7163e35f4bd326d9	Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES 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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.297

char LCS 59 (64.8%) · word LCS 12 (70.6%)

Stephanos

Νικωνία, πόλις ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ πρὸς ταῖς ἐκβολαῖς τοῦ Ἴστρου. Στράβων ἑβδόμῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νικωνιάτης ὡς Ῥιθυμνιάτης.

Herodian

… Φωκίδος. Παυσανίας ιʹ (c. 38, 8). λέγεται καὶ Μύων. Μυρμιδονία χώρα τῶν Μυρμιδόνων· οὕτω γὰρ ἡ Αἴγινα ἐκλήθη. Ναρνία πόλις Σαυνιτῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ παραρρέοντος ποταμοῦ Νάρνου, ὡς Διονύσιος ὀκτωκαιδεκάτῳ Ῥωμαϊκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας. Νικωνία πόλις ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ πρὸς ταῖς ἐκβολαῖς τοῦ Ἴστρου. Στράβων ἑβδόμῃ. Ξιφωνία πόλις Σικελίας. Θεόπομπος Φιλιππικῶν τριακοστῷ ἐνάτῳ. Ξυνία πόλις Θεσσαλίας. Πολύβιος ἐνάτῳ. Παιονία. Πανία ἐπίνειον Κιλικίας περὶ τὸ Ἀλήϊον πεδίον. οὕτως ἐκαλεῖτο καὶ ἡ Ἀρκαδία. Παρθενία κώμη Πόντου πλησίον κα…