Ὀλύκραι - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ὀλύκραι, πόλις περὶ Ναύπακτον. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Εὐρώπης. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὀλυκραῖος.

Olykrai: a city around Naupaktos. Hekataios in the Periegesis of Europe. The ethnonym Olykraios.

External translation supplied by Brady Kiesling; reported Claude Fable 5.5 translation. Credit: Brady Kiesling and the Stephanos project (Greg Baker, Gabriel Jower, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling). Not individually verified; exact Greek input not supplied.

Text Details

Entry	#56
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 491.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	10

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Περιηγήσει Εὐρώπης · FGrHist 1 F 112

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ὀλύκρη	Olykre (Olykre) · place
Ναύπακτος	Naupaktos (Naupactus) · place · corrected · Q56398924
Εὐρώπη	Europe · place
Ὀλυκραῖος	Olykraios (demonym) · people
Ὀλύκραι	place · explicit · wikidata: Q16608474 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Molycreia \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1968.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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	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 1.340

char LCS 43 (63.2%) · word LCS 6 (60.0%)

Stephanos

Ὀλύκραι, πόλις περὶ Ναύπακτον. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Εὐρώπης. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὀλυκραῖος.

Herodian

…ἐπίπληξις. σεσημείωται τολύπη βαρύτονον ἡ ἐργασία καὶ λατυπή, χαμαιτύπη καὶ Ἀμφιτροπή ὀξύτονον δῆμος τῆς Ἀντιοχίδος φυλῆς. Τὰ εἰς 'ρη' ἰωνικώτερα κατὰ τροπὴν τοῦ 'α' εἰς 'η' βαρύνεται, κόρη, Ἄσκρη πόλις Βοιωτίας, Ὀλύκρη πόλις περὶ Ναύπακτον. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Εὐρώπης. Ἀντισάρη καὶ αὕτη πόλις. τινὲς δὲ Τισάρη γράφουσι, δέρη ὁ τράχηλος, τὸ δὲ δειρή πλεονασμῷ τοῦ 'ι' ὀξύνεται. ἀθάρη. ἔστι δὲ σιτῶδές τι ἑψητόν, ὅπερ ἐν τῇ συνηθείᾳ λάθυρον καλοῦσι. Ἐφύρη ὄνομα πόλεως, ὡς παρὰ τῷ ποιητῇ (…