Νίνος - Stephanos Ethnika

Νίνος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Νίνος, πόλις Ἀσσυρίων, ἣν ἔκτισε Νίνος Σεμιράμιδος ἀνήρ, ἐν τῇ Ἀτουρίᾳ. οἱ πολῖται Νίνιοι. Στράβων ἑκκαιδεκάτῃ.

Ninos: a city of the Assyrians, which Ninos the husband of Semiramis founded, in Atouria. The citizens Ninioi. Strabo in the sixteenth.

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	#63
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 476.11
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count	16

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	(16,1,2 [C 737,10])

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Νῖνος	Ninus · place · corrected · Q5680
Νῖνος	Ninus · person · corrected · Q5680
Σεμιράμις	Semiramis · person
Ἀσσυρίοι	Assyrians · people
Ἀτουρία	Aturia · place
Νίνιοι	Ninians (inhabitants of Ninus) · people
Νίνος	place · explicit · wikidata: Q5680 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	which Ninus, husband of Semiramis, founded
Morphological Composition	the citizens are called 'Ninioi' (demonym)

Links

Place links	Nineveh \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1712.jpg
Review	Open review page

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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	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
Gloss	ἔκτασις ἡ gloss:d629af1a353df660	lengthening (of a vowel) 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 1.176

char LCS 57 (63.3%) · word LCS 11 (68.8%)

Stephanos

Νίνος, πόλις Ἀσσυρίων, ἣν ἔκτισε Νίνος Σεμιράμιδος ἀνήρ, ἐν τῇ Ἀτουρίᾳ. οἱ πολῖται Νίνιοι. Στράβων ἑκκαιδεκάτῃ.

Herodian

…Σφῆνος ὄνομα τόπου, Σμῆνος ὄνομα ποταμοῦ, Γλῆνος ὄνομα πόλεως Κρητικῆς, Μῆνος, θρῆνος. τὰ δὲ ἐπίθετα ὀξύνεται, φηνός ὁ λαμπρός, στρηνός, πτηνός, ψηνός. ἔτι καὶ τὸ ληνός μὴ ὂν ἐπίθετον. Τὰ εἰς 'ινος' δισύλλαβα βαρύνεται, Νίνος πόλις Ἀσσυρίων, ἣν ἔκτισε Νίνος Σεμιράμιδος ἀνήρ, ἐν τῇ Ἀτουρίᾳ. πίνος ὁ ῥύπος, δῖνος ἡ συστροφή, σχῖνος, λίνος ὃ σημαίνει εἶδος ὕμνου ὡς παιάν, διθύραμβος, σπίνος εἶδος ὀρνέου «καὶ σπίνος ἠῷα σπίζων καὶ ὄρνεα πάντα» παρ´ Ἀράτῳ (Dios. 292). Σπῖνος ποταμός, γρῖνος, πρῖνος. μόνον τὸ ῥ…