Ὄλπαι - Stephanos Ethnika

Ὄλπαι OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

fortress

Entry #54
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 490.20 | Billerbeck: Ο54
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count: 16
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Θουκυδίδης (Thucydides) (3,105,1)
Entities: Ὄλπαι (Olpae (Olpai)) [place], Ἀκαρνᾶνες (Acarnanians) [people], Ἀμφιλόχοι (Amphilochians) [people], Ὀλπαῖος (Olpaean (inhabitant of Olpae)) [person]
Etymologies: Unclear Metalinguistic: No etymology is given in the passage; only a description of the place (a fortress shared by the Acarnanians and Amphilochians) and the demonym 'Ὀλπαῖος' (masculine, feminine and neuter forms).
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Ὄλπαι, φρούριον, κοινὸν Ἀκαρνάνων καὶ Ἀμφιλόχων δικαστήριον. Θουκυδίδης τρίτῃ. ὁ οἰκήτωρ Ὀλπαῖος καὶ θηλυκῶς καὶ οὐδετέρως.

Olpai: a fortress; a common court of justice for the Acarnanians and the Amphilochians. Thucydides, book 3 (3.105.1). The inhabitant is Olpaios; there is also a feminine and a neuter form.

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

Herodian 1.338

char LCS 66 (64.1%) · word LCS 9 (56.2%)

Stephanos

Ὄλπαι, φρούριον, κοινὸν Ἀκαρνάνων καὶ Ἀμφιλόχων δικαστήριον. Θουκυδίδης τρίτῃ. ὁ οἰκήτωρ Ὀλπαῖος καὶ θηλυκῶς καὶ οὐδετέρως.

Herodian

…ὸ ὄρος. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Βιθυνῶν. Θεόπομπος ὀγδόῳ Ἑλληνικῶν. λέγεται καὶ Κάρπεια, σάλπη, κάμπη σκώληξ, καμπή δὲ ἡ κάμψις. Τράμπη πόλις Ἰωνίας, Ἄμπη πόλις πρὸς τῇ Ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ. Ἡρόδοτος ἕκτῃ (c. 20). Τάρπη πόλις Ἰταλίας. Ὄλπαι φρούριον κοινὸν Ἀκαρνάνων καὶ Ἀμφιλόχων δικαστήριον. Θουκυδίδης τρίτῃ (c. 105). Στίλπαι πόλις Σικελίας. πόρπη παρὰ τὸ πείρω. τὸ δὲ μολπή ἀπὸ τοῦ μέλπω καὶ πομπή παρὰ τὸ πέμπω ὀξύνεται. τὸ δὲ Πόμπη κύριον ὂν παροξύνεται. Τὰ εἰς 'πη' κύρια ὄντα ὑπερδισύλλαβα βαρύνεται, Καλλιόπη· ἔστι