Χάλαιον - Stephanos Ethnika

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Χάλαιον, πόλις Λοκρῶν. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ “μετὰ δὲ Λοκροί· ἐν δὲ Χάλαιον πόλις, ἐν δὲ Οἰάνθη πόλις”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Χαλαῖος. Θουκυδίδης γʹ “Μεσσαπίους καὶ Τριταιέας καὶ Χαλαίους καὶ Τολοφωνίους καὶ Ἱστίους καὶ Οἰανθίους”.

Chalaion: a city of the Lokroi. Hekataios in Europe: 'After them come the Lokroi; among them is Chalaion, a city, and among them Oianthe, a city.' The ethnonym is 'Chalaios'. Thucydides, book 3: 'Messapioi and Tritaieis and Chalaioi and Tolophonioi and Histieis and Oianthioi'.

Text Details

Entry	#7
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 678.18
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-11
Word count	32
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Εὐρώπη (Europe) · FGrHist 1 F 113a
Εὐρώπη (Europe)	Εὐρώπη (Europe)
Θουκυδίδης (Thucydides)	3.101.2

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Χάλαιον	Chalaion · place
Λοκροί	Locrians · people
Λοκροί	Locrians · people
Χάλαιον	Chalaion · place
Οἰάνθη	Oianthe · place
Χαλαῖος	Chalaian · people
Μεσσάπιοι	Messapians · people
Τριταιεῖς	Tritaeans · people
Χαλαῖοι	Chalaians · people
Τολοφώνιοι	Tोलophonians · people
Ἡσσίοι	Hessians · people
Οἰάνθιοι	Oianthians · people
Χάλαιον	place · explicit · wikidata: Q60790567 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	No origin for the place name is explained. The text identifies Chalaion as a city of the Locrians and gives the corresponding ethnic name, Chalaieos.

Links

Place links	Chalai \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	../graphic/page_072_001.png
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym 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 1.369

char LCS 75 (43.9%) · word LCS 16 (50.0%)

Stephanos

Χάλαιον, πόλις Λοκρῶν. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ “μετὰ δὲ Λοκροί· ἐν δὲ Χάλαιον πόλις, ἐν δὲ Οἰάνθη πόλις”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Χαλαῖος. Θουκυδίδης γʹ “Μεσσαπίους καὶ Τριταιέας καὶ Χαλαίους καὶ Τολοφωνίους καὶ Ἱστίους καὶ Οἰανθίους”.

Herodian

…ύναιον, Λύκαιον τὸ ὄρος, κώπαιον, δέραιον, νύμφαιον καὶ Νύμφαιον πόλις Ταυρικὴ μεταξὺ Παντικαπαίου μητροπόλεως καὶ Θεοδοσίας, ὥς φησι Στράβων, τὸ δὲ νυμφαῖον κτητικόν. Λέχαιον, Φύταιον πόλις Αἰτωλίας. Πολύβιος ἑνδεκάτῳ. Χάλαιον πόλις Λοκρῶν. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ «μετὰ δὲ Λοκροί· ἐν δὲ Χάλαιον πόλις, ἐν δὲ Οἰάνθη πόλις». σπήλαιον τὸ ἄντρον. Τύπαιον ὄρος Ἤλιδος. Παυσανίας Ἠλιακῶν αʹ (c. 6, 7). Σάρδαιον ὄρος περὶ Ἀσωπόν. Μάρκαιον ὄρος τῆς Τρῳάδος πρὸς τῇ Γέργιθι. Λήναια ἀγὼν Διονύσου ἐν ἀγροῖς. τὸ δὲ Τομαῖον ὄρος παρὰ τὸ Κορυφάσιον τῆς …