Ξιλία - Stephanos Ethnika

Ξιλία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Ξιλία, πόλις Λιβύης. Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν τρίτῳ Λιβυκῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ξιλιάτης, ὡς Ἰάμνια Ἰαμνιάτης.

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Text Details

Entry	#7
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 481.3
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count	13

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀλέξανδρος (Alexander)	Λιβυκῶν · FGrHist 273 F 44

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ξιλία	Xilia · place
Λιβύη	Libya · place · corrected · Q2370577
Λιβυκοί	Libyans · people
Ξιλιάτης	Xiliate (inhabitant of Xilia) · people
Ἰάμνια	Iamnia · place
Ἰαμνιάτης	Iamniate (inhabitant of Iamnia) · people
Ξιλία	place · explicit · wikidata: Q994451 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The demonym is Ξιλιάτης, formed in the same way as Ἰάμνια → Ἰαμνιάτης.

Links

Place links	Western Liang
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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) + 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 (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES 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 · 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	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.289

char LCS 40 (54.1%) · word LCS 7 (53.8%)

Stephanos

Ξιλία, πόλις Λιβύης. Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν τρίτῳ Λιβυκῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ξιλιάτης, ὡς Ἰάμνια Ἰαμνιάτης.

Herodian

…ακλείαις στήλαις. Μεδυλλία πόλις, Ἀλβανῶν κτίσις, Ῥωμαίων ἄποικος. Διονύσιος γʹ Ῥωμαϊκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας. Μελία πόλις Καρίας. Ἑκαταῖος γενεαλογιῶν δʹ. Ναυπλία, πόλις Ἄργους. Στράβων ὀγδόῃ «ἀπὸ τοῦ ταῖς ναυσὶ προσπλεῖσθαι». Ξιλία πόλις Λιβύης. Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν τρίτῳ Λιβυκῶν. Ὀρεστία τὸ ἥμισυ μέρος Μεγάλης Πόλεως ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ Ὀρέστου παρουσίας. ἔστι καὶ πόλις ἐν Ὀρέσταις, ἐν ὄρει ὑπερκειμένῳ τῆς Μακεδονικῆς γῆς. καὶ ἄλλη ἐν Ἀρκαδίᾳ. Μελανδία χώρα Σιθωνίας. Θεόπομπος τριακοστῷ τρίτῳ Φιλιππικῶ…

Herodian 1.104

char LCS 30 (40.5%) · word LCS 5 (38.5%)

Stephanos

Ξιλία, πόλις Λιβύης. Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν τρίτῳ Λιβυκῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ξιλιάτης, ὡς Ἰάμνια Ἰαμνιάτης.

Herodian

…ὶ ποταμοῦ Ἰλλυρίας, ἐθνικόν ἐστιν. Ἔτι τὰ εἰς 'στις' ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβάς, εἰ μὴ ἐπίθετα εἴη, προπαροξύνεται, βούβρωστις, ἄγρωστις, Αὔγωστις πόλις Λοκρίδος ἢ τόπος ἢ χωρίον ἐντὸς τῆς πόλεως, ὡς Ἐπαφρόδιτος. Ζάγυστις χωρίον Λιβύης. Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν τρίτῳ Λιβυκῶν. ὀξύνεται τὸ Κεραστίς· οὕτως ἐκαλεῖτο ἡ Κύπρος ἀπὸ τοῦ πολλὰς ἄκρας ἔχειν—Λιγυστίς. Λιγυστίδες νῆσοι αἱ καὶ Στοιχάδες, Λιβυστίς, Κυρρεστίς ἡ Ἀθηνᾶ, Γεραιστίς, Ὀρεστίς ὡς ἐπιθετικά. * Τὰ εἰς 'τις' δισύλλαβα 'ν' πρὸ τοῦ '…