Ὄλπαι - Stephanos Ethnika

Ὄλπαι OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

fortress

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

Translation pending

Text Details

Entry	#54
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 490.20
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	16

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Θουκυδίδης (Thucydides)	(3,105,1)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ὄλπαι	Olpae (Olpai) · place · corrected · Q16613536
Ἀκαρνᾶνες	Acarnanians · people
Ἀμφιλόχοι	Amphilochians · people
Ὀλπαῖος	Olpaean (inhabitant of Olpae) · person
Ὄλπαι	place · explicit · wikidata: Q16613536 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
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).

Links

Place links	Olpae \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1962.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 · 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

Herodian overlaps

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