Ὀλκάδες - Stephanos Ethnika

Ὀλκάδες OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

people

Ὀλκάδες, ὡς Ἀρκάδες, ἔθνος Ἰβήρων τῶν ἐντὸς Ἴβηρος τοῦ ποταμοῦ. Πολύβιος ἐν τρίτῳ.

Translation pending

Text Details

Entry	#44
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 489.20 · Billerbeck Ο44
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	13

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Πολύβιος (Polybius)	3,13,5; 3,14,3; 3,33,10

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ὀλκάδες	Olcades · people
Ἀρκάδες	Arcadians · people
Ἴβηρες	Iberians · people
Ἴβηρος	Iberus (Ebro River) · place · corrected · Q10965
Ὀλκάδες	place · explicit · wikidata: Q1224336 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Place Transfer	Olcades: like Arcadians, a people of the Iberians located within the river Iberus (Ebro).

Links

Place links	Olcades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1957.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.58

char LCS 51 (77.3%) · word LCS 10 (76.9%)

Stephanos

Ὀλκάδες, ὡς Ἀρκάδες, ἔθνος Ἰβήρων τῶν ἐντὸς Ἴβηρος τοῦ ποταμοῦ. Πολύβιος ἐν τρίτῳ.

Herodian

Ἀρκάδας τὴν πόλιν, ἀλλ´ Ἀρκαδίαν φησί. Ὀλκάς ἔθνος Ἰβήρων τῶν ἐντὸς Ἴβηρος τοῦ ποταμοῦ. Πολύβιος ἐν τρίτῳ. Νουβάς ἔθνος Λιβύης παρὰ Νείλῳ, οἳ καὶ Νοῦβαι καὶ Νουβαῖοι λέγονται, Ἑλλάς πόλις Θεσσαλίας «πολλοὶ Ἀχαΐδες εἰσὶν ἂν Ἑλλάδα τε Φθίην τε» (Il. 9, 395). ἐκτίσθη ὑπὸ Ἕλληνος οὐ τοῦ Δευκαλίωνος, ἀλλὰ τοῦ Φθίου καὶ Χρυσίππου…