Ὄμβοι

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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Ὄμβοι, πόλις Αἰγύπτου πρὸς τῇ Λιβύῃ. Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν πρώτῳ Αἰγυπτιακῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὀμβῖται.

Omboi: a city of Egypt toward Libya. Alexander in the first of the Aigyptiaka. The ethnonym Ombitai.

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#64
Greek textmeineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source idMeineke 492.3
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count13

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Ἀλέξανδρος (Alexander)Ἀιγυπτιακῶν · FGrHist 273 F 4
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ὌμβοιOmboi · place
ΑἴγυπτοςEgypt · place · corrected · Q11768
ΛιβύηLibya · place · corrected · Q2370577
Ὀμβῖταιpeople of Omboi (Omboites) · people
Ὄμβοιplace · explicit · pleiades: 786079 · seeded_headword_alignment
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Unclear Metalinguisticthe ethnic name is 'Ομβῖται' (the inhabitants are called Ombitai)

Links

Place linksKom Ombo | 📍 Map | Pleiades
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Translation Guidance

KindRuleGuidanceDetection
FormulaX (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
FormulaX (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL)
formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb
Translate as "X, book Y"
Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
FormulaX (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative BOOK NAME)
formula:c795eaabedf9a542
Translate as "Χ, in his *Y*"
Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
FormulaX... + πρός + Y (dative)
formula:1a524ea80fe79519
Translate as "X... near Y"
Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formulaτὸ 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
FormulaΧ (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME)
formula:c22408ee90fd1a1e
Translate as "X, in book Y of his *Z*"
Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Glossγένος τό
gloss:c746b76469e4485d
descent
Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Glossἐθνικόν τό
gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a
ethnonym
Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Glossἔθνος τό
gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8
people
Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.138
char LCS 57 (78.1%) · word LCS 10 (76.9%)
Stephanos
Ὄμβοι, πόλις Αἰγύπτου πρὸς τῇ Λιβύῃ. Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν πρώτῳ Αἰγυπτιακῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὀμβῖται.
Herodian
…βος. λέμβος, βόμβος, τύμβος, ῥύμβος, στίβος, τρίβος. Στρόβος πόλις Μακεδονίας. Τάβος ἥρως, ἀφ´ οὗ Τάβαι πόλις Λυδίας. Θράμβος ἀκρωτήριον Μακεδονίας. Ἴσβος Ἰσαυρίας πόλις, Κύβος ἢ καὶ Κυβώ, πόλις Ἰώνων ἐν Λιβύῃ Φοινίκων, Ὄμβοι πόλις Αἰγύπτου πρὸς τῇ Λιβύῃ. Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν πρώτῳ Αἰγυπτιακῶν. Σάβοι ἔθνος Φρυγίας. λέγονται καὶ ἀντὶ τοῦ βάκχοι παρὰ Φρυξίν. Σάμβος πόλις Ἀράβων καὶ οἱ πολῖται Σάμβοι. Βοῖβος Γλαφύρου υἱός, ἀφ´ οὗ Βοίβη πόλις Θεσσαλίας. Στροῖβος ὁ ἀδελφὸς Γύζαντος. σεσημείωται τὸ Βόλβος παροξυνόμ…

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