Νοστία - Stephanos Ethnika

Νοστία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

village

Νοστία, κώμη Ἀρκαδίας. Θεόπομπος τριακοστῷ δευτέρῳ Φιλιππικῶν. Ἔφορος τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νεστάνιος ἔφη, ὥστε κατ´ αὐτὸν Νεστανίαν λέγεσθαι· ἡ αὐτὴ γὰρ τῇ προτέρᾳ, ὡς δῆλον ἐξ ἄλλων.

Nostia: a village of Arkadia. Theopompos in the thirty-second of the Philippika. Ephoros gave the ethnonym Nestanios, so that according to him it is called Nestania; for it is the same as the former, as is clear from other.

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	#74
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 478.7
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	25

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Θεόπομπος (Theopompus)	Φιλιππικῶν · FGrHist 115 F 175
Ἔφορος (Ephorus)	FGrHist 70 F 234

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Νοστία	Nostia · place · corrected · Q60791907
Ἀρκαδία	Arcadia · place · corrected · Q12898802
Νεστάνιος	Nestanios · people
Νεστανία	Nestania · place
Νοστία	place · explicit · wikidata: Q60791907 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	Ephorus said the ethnicon is 'Νεστάνιος' (Nestanios), so that, according to him, it is called 'Νεστανία' (Nestania).
Unclear Metalinguistic	For it is the same as the earlier one, as is clear from others.

Links

Place links	Nestane \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1726.jpg
Review	Open review page

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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 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 (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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
Gloss	κώμη ἡ gloss:e14972622087326b	village Domain: SETTLEMENTS/STRUCTURES 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 1.325

char LCS 38 (27.1%) · word LCS 4 (15.4%)

Stephanos

Νοστία, κώμη Ἀρκαδίας. Θεόπομπος τριακοστῷ δευτέρῳ Φιλιππικῶν. Ἔφορος τὸ ἐθνικὸν Νεστάνιος ἔφη, ὥστε κατ´ αὐτὸν Νεστανίαν λέγεσθαι· ἡ αὐτὴ γὰρ τῇ προτέρᾳ, ὡς δῆλον ἐξ ἄλλων.

Herodian

εἰ μὴ εἴη ἐκ συναιρέσεως, Σάμη νῆσος, καλάμη καὶ Καλάμαι πόλις Πελοποννήσου. Παυσανίας τετάρτῳ (c. 31, 3). παλάμη, Ζαδράμη βασίλειον τῶν Κυναιδοκολπιτῶν. θαλάμη, Θαλάμαι πόλις τῆς Μεσσηνίας. Θεόπομπος τριακοστῷ δευτέρῳ Φιλιππικῶν. Κοροκονδάμη πλησίον Σινώπης. Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἑνδεκάτῳ γεωγραφουμένων. Ὀργάμη πόλις ἐν τῷ Ἴστρῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. τὸ δὲ σπιθαμή ὀξύνεται καὶ τὸ Ἱεραμαί πόλις Καρίας. τὸ δὲ σησαμῆ περισπᾶται ὡς ἐκ συναιρέσεως. * Τὰ εἰς 'μη' …