Γεράνθραι - Stephanos Ethnika

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Γεράνθραι, πόλις Λακωνικῆς, Παυσανίας τρίτῳ. ὁ πολίτης Γερανθράτης, ὡς αὐτὸς Παυσανίας.

Geranthrai: a city of Laconia, Pausanias in the third. The citizen Geranthrates, as Pausanias himself.

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	#56
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 203.13
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-10
Word count	11

Links

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Page scans	vol1_494.jpg
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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 (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 · 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 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	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an 'X'" 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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.265

char LCS 37 (51.4%) · word LCS 5 (45.5%)

Stephanos

Γεράνθραι, πόλις Λακωνικῆς, Παυσανίας τρίτῳ. ὁ πολίτης Γερανθράτης, ὡς αὐτὸς Παυσανίας.

Herodian

…αὶ τῶν Ἄλπεων. Ἀντίφρα πολίχνιον Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐγγύς. Γαλάδραι πόλις Μακεδονίας ἐν Πιερίᾳ. Λυκόφρων (v. 1444) »σῆναι Γαλάδρας τὸν στρατήλατον λύκον« ἀπὸ Γαλάδρου τοῦ Ἠμαθίου παιδός. οἱ δὲ ὅτι ὁ Γαλάδρας ἔκτισε τὴν πόλιν. Γεράνθραι πόλις Λακωνικῆς. Παυσανίας τρίτῳ (c. 2, 6). Ἐχέτρα πόλις Ἰταλίας. Κελαίθρα πόλις Βοιωτίας. Φαλάκραι ἄκρα τῆς Ἴδης, ἥτις οὐκ ἔχει ζῶν φυτὸν διὰ τὴν χιόνα καὶ τὸν κρύσταλλον, ἀλλ´ ἐψίλωται. καὶ πάντα τὰ ἐψιλωμένα ὄρη ἐλέγετο Φαλάκραι. Ἱππουάκρα πόλις Λιβ…