Νοῦβαι - Stephanos Ethnika

Νοῦβαι OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

people

Νοῦβαι, ἔθνος Λιβύης παρὰ Νείλῳ. Ἀπολλόδωρος δευτέρῳ περὶ γῆς. λέγονται καὶ Νουβαῖοι ὡς Σαβαῖοι, καὶ Νουβάδες, οἱ αὐτοί.

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Text Details

Entry	#76
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 478.13
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count	18

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀπολλόδωρος (Apollodorus)	Περὶ γῆς · FGrHist 244 F 330 = fr. 27 Marcotte

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Νουβαῖοι	Nubians · people · corrected · Q15140604
Λιβύη	Libya · place · corrected · Q2370577
Νεῖλος	Nile · place · corrected · Q3392
Νουβαῖοι	Nubians · people · corrected · Q15140604
Σαβαῖοι	Sabaeans · people
Νουμῖδαι	Numidians · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	They are also called Nubai as Sabaeans; and they are the same as the Numidians.

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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) + 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	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
Gloss	γῆ ἡ gloss:728db30aa96e9869	land, dirt, Earth Domain: TERRAIN/LANDMASSES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people 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 1.60

char LCS 91 (93.8%) · word LCS 17 (94.4%)

Stephanos

Νοῦβαι, ἔθνος Λιβύης παρὰ Νείλῳ. Ἀπολλόδωρος δευτέρῳ περὶ γῆς. λέγονται καὶ Νουβαῖοι ὡς Σαβαῖοι, καὶ Νουβάδες, οἱ αὐτοί.

Herodian

…ἔχει ἡ παράδοσις. Τὰ εἰς 'βης' δισύλλαβα παραληγόμενα φωνήεντι βαρύνεται Λάβης, λέβης, Κέβης, Κάβης, Χάβης, Σίβης, Ἰνδικὸν ἔθνος, Βύβης πόλις κατὰ Πευκετίους καὶ τὸ ἐθνικὸν οἱ Βύβαι ὁμοφώνως ὡς Λοκροί καὶ Δελφοί. Νούβης ἔθνος Λιβύης παρὰ Νείλῳ. Ἀπολλόδωρος δευτέρῳ περὶ γῆς. λέγονται καὶ Νουβαῖοι ὡς Σαβαῖοι καὶ Νουβάδες οἱ αὐτοί. τὸ δὲ κιβῆς περισπᾶται ἀπὸ τοῦ κιβέας. Τὰ εἰς 'γης' δισύλλαβα βαρύνονται χωρὶς εἰ μή τι ἐκ συνθέτου καταλελειμμένον εἴη ἢ παρώνυμον ἐπιθετικόν. τότε γὰρ περισπᾶται, ὅτε συναλήλιπται ἢ βραχείᾳ παραλῆγον ἰσοσυλλάβως κλίν…