Ὄλβηλος - Stephanos Ethnika

Ὄλβηλος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Ὄλβηλος, πόλις Μακεδονίας. Βάλακρος Μακεδονικῶν .. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὀλβήλιος.

Olbelos, a city in Makedonia. Balakros in his Makedonika. The ethnonym is 'Olbelios'.

AI translation — gpt-6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#40
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 489.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	8
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Βάλακρος (Balakros)	Μακεδονικῶν · FGrHist 773 F 3

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ὄλβηλος	Olbelos (town) · place
Μακεδονία	Macedonia · place · corrected · Q81734
Ὀλβήλιος	Olbelios (ethnic/demonym) · people
Ὄλβηλος	place · explicit · wikidata: Q138474481 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Q138474481
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1947.jpg
Review	Open review page

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 DERIVED NOUN) + παρά + τό + Y (ETYMON) formula:e1b19e84652cc7be	Translate as "X is deriving/derives from the form '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 · 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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.162

char LCS 41 (70.7%) · word LCS 5 (62.5%)

Stephanos

Ὄλβηλος, πόλις Μακεδονίας. Βάλακρος Μακεδονικῶν .. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὀλβήλιος.

Herodian

Εὐρύηλος· οὕτως ἡ ἀκρόπολις τῶν Ἐπιπολῶν. Κάρμηλος ὄρος. Ὄλβηλος πόλις Μακεδονίας. Βάλακρος Μακεδονικῶν.... Ῥάκηλος πόλις Μακεδονίας. Σελευκόβηλος πόλις Συρίας. Φάρβηλος πόλις Ἐρετριέων. Ἄρβηλος ὁ Ἀθμονέως, ἀφ´ οὗ Ἄρβηλα πόλις Περσική. τὸ δὲ ῥιγηλός ἔχει θηλυκόν. Τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'ηλος' ὑπερδισύλλαβα ἁπλᾶ ἐπιθετικὰ ἔχοντα θηλυκ…