Οἰδάντιον - Stephanos Ethnika

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Οἰδάντιον, πόλις Ἰλλυριῶν. Θεόπομπος Φιλιππικῶν τριακοστῷ ὀγδόῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Οἴδαντες, ὥς φησιν Ἑκαταῖος. καὶ Οἰδαντικὴ γῆ.

Oidantion: a city of the Illyrians. Theopompos, book 38 in his Philippika. The ethnonym is 'Oidantes', as Hekataios says. Also 'Oidantian land'.

AI translation — gpt-5.6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#19
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 485.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	15
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Θεόπομπος (Theopompus)	Φιλιππικῶν · FGrHist 115 F 182
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	FGrHist 1 F 98

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Οἰδάντιον	Oidantion · place
Ἰλλυριοί	Illyrians · people
Οἴδαντες	Oidantes · people
Οἰδαντικὴ γῆ	Oidantic land · place

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	'Oidantion' — a city of the Illyrians.
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon (demonym) 'Oidantes', as Hecataeus says.
Morphological Composition	and 'Oidantic land' (the adjectival form denoting the territory).

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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 · 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 (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 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	γῆ ἡ gloss:728db30aa96e9869	land, dirt, Earth Domain: TERRAIN/LANDMASSES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.