Ὀμφάκη - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ὀμφάκη, πόλις Σικελίας. Φίλιστος Σικελικῶν τετάρτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὀμφακαῖος. ἔδει δὲ Ὀμφακῖνος τῷ τύπῳ τῆς χώρας.

Omphake: a city of Sicily. Philistos in the fourth of the Sikelika. The ethnonym Omphakaios. But it ought to be Omphakinos by the type of the land.

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	#69
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 493.8
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	16

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Φίλιστος (Philistos)	Σικελικῶν · FGrHist 556 F 19

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ὀμφάκη	Omphake · place · corrected · Q23640647
Σικελία	Sicily · place · corrected · Q4951156
Ὀμφακαῖος	Omphacaean (demonym of Omphake) · people
Ὀμφακῖνος	Omphakinos (demonym of Omphake) · people
Ὀμφάκη	place · explicit · wikidata: Q23640647 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon (demonym) is “Ὀμφακαῖος” (Omphakaios). But “Ὀμφακῖνος” (Omphakinos) was appropriate according to the usual type/form of the region.

Links

Place links	Omphace \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1994.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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (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
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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
Gloss	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.315

char LCS 43 (47.8%) · word LCS 6 (37.5%)

Stephanos

Ὀμφάκη, πόλις Σικελίας. Φίλιστος Σικελικῶν τετάρτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὀμφακαῖος. ἔδει δὲ Ὀμφακῖνος τῷ τύπῳ τῆς χώρας.

Herodian

…ν Μηδίᾳ ἀπὸ Ἀρσάκου βασιλέως Περσῶν. Ἀφάκη πόλις Λιβύης, ὡς πολυίστωρ ἐν Λιβυκῶν τρίτῃ. Μαινάκη Κελτικὴ πόλις. Μαλάκη πόλις Ἰβηρίας. Ἀρτεμίδωρος. Λαμψάκη ἐπιχωρία τις κόρη, ἀφ´ ἧς Λάμψακος πόλις. Βαβυτάκη πόλις Περσική. Ὀμφάκη πόλις Σικελίας. Φίλιστος Σικελικῶν τετάρτῳ. Σιδάκη πόλις Λυκίας ἀπὸ Σιδάκης τῆς Ἀμισωδάρου. Τυριτάκη πόλις Πόντου. Σιττάκη πόλις Περσική, ὡς Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Ψευδαρτάκη λόφος ἐν τῇ Σκυθίᾳ μετὰ τὸ λεγόμενον Ἅγιον ὄρος. Βαιάκη πόλις Χαονίας. Ἑκαταῖος. Βαράκη νῆσος τ…