Γέρην - Stephanos Ethnika

Γέρην OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Γέρην, πόλις ἢ κώμη Λέσβου, ἀπὸ Γέρηνος τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος. [τὸ ἐθνικὸν ὁμοφώνως] καὶ θηλυκῶς Γερηνίς.

Geren: a city or village of Lesbos, from Geren the son of Poseidon. and in the feminine Gerenis.

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	#59
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 205.3
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-10
Word count	15

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after 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

Herodian overlaps

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Herodian 1.17

char LCS 50 (64.1%) · word LCS 9 (60.0%)

Stephanos

Γέρην, πόλις ἢ κώμη Λέσβου, ἀπὸ Γέρηνος τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος. [τὸ ἐθνικὸν ὁμοφώνως] καὶ θηλυκῶς Γερηνίς.

Herodian

…ἰς 'ρην' καθαρὸν μὴ ἔχοντα πρὸ τέλους συλλαβὴν εἰς τὸ 'ε' φωνῆεν καταλήγουσαν ὀξύνεται, Σειρήν, Πειρήν καθ´ Ἡσίοδον πατὴρ Ἰοῦς, πυρήν, πλὴν τοῦ ἄῤῥην. Τὰ εἰς 'ρην' καθαρὸν τῷ 'ε' παραλήγοντα παροξύνεται, Γέρην πόλις καὶ κώμη Λέσβου ἀπὸ Γέρηνος τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ὁμοφώνως, τέρην, Θέρην ποταμός, περπέρην. Τὰ εἰς 'ιν' δικατάληκτα ἁπλᾶ μὲν ὀξύνεται, δελφίν καὶ δελφίς, Τελχίν καὶ Τελχίς. Τελχῖνες δὲ ἐλέγοντο οἱ Κρῆτες. εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ φθονεροὶ δαίμονες οἰκήσαντες τὴν Ῥόδον· λέγονται δὲ καὶ Τελχῖ…