Γίγωνος - Stephanos Ethnika

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Γίγωνος, πόλις Θρᾴκης προσεχὴς τῇ Παλλήνῃ. ὁ πολίτης Γιγώνιος. ἀπὸ Γίγωνος τοῦ Αἰθιόπων βασιλέως, ὃν ἥττησε Διόνυσος. Ἀρτεμίδωρος δὲ ὁ Ἐφέσιος Γιγωνίδα ταύτην φησίν.

Gigonos: a city of Thrace adjoining Pallene. The citizen Gigonios. From Gigon the king of the Ethiopians, whom Dionysos defeated. Artemidoros of Ephesos calls it Gigonis.

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	#75
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 207.17
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-12
Word count	24

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... 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	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	προσεχής -ες (+ dative) gloss:3d5be602ab263899	bordering, adjoining Domain: MEASUREMENT & SPACE 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 1.266

char LCS 28 (20.6%) · word LCS 5 (20.8%)

Stephanos

Γίγωνος, πόλις Θρᾴκης προσεχὴς τῇ Παλλήνῃ. ὁ πολίτης Γιγώνιος. ἀπὸ Γίγωνος τοῦ Αἰθιόπων βασιλέως, ὃν ἥττησε Διόνυσος. Ἀρτεμίδωρος δὲ ὁ Ἐφέσιος Γιγωνίδα ταύτην φησίν.

Herodian

Πύρρα πόλις ἐν Λέσβῳ· ἔστι καὶ κώμη Λιγυστικῆς. βαρύνεται δὲ καὶ Κύδραι πόλις Βρυγῶν. Στράβων ἑβδόμῃ, καὶ Μάκρα νῆσος Λυκίας, ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν περίπλῳ αὐτῆς. Τὰ εἰς 'σα' δισύλλαβα βαρύνεται, αἶσα· ἔστι καὶ Αἶσα πόλις Θρᾴκης προσεχὴς τῇ Παλλήνῃ. μοῦσα μόνον δισύλλαβον τῇ 'ου' διφθόγγῳ παραληγόμενον ὁμοίως ἐν χρήσει τῇ τῶν παλαιῶν καὶ τῇ κοινῇ συνηθείᾳ. τὸ γὰρ Δοῦσα κύριον καθ´ ἱστορίαν ἐστὶ λεγόμενον ἥ τε Χοῦσα πόλις Αἰγυπτίων. πεῖσα ἡ πειθώ, μεθ´ ὧν γλῶσσα, π…