Χανδανάκη - Stephanos Ethnika

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Χανδανάκη, πόλις Περσική. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίας περιηγήσει. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Χανδανακηνός.

Chandanake: a Persian city. Hekataios in his Periegesis of Asia. The ethnonym is 'Chandanakenos'.

Text Details

Entry	#21
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 686.3
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-12
Word count	9
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Ἀσίας περιήγησις · FGrHist 1 F 283

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Χανδανάκη	Chandanake · place
Περσίς	Persia / Persian (here: Persian city) · place

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Borrowing Non Greek	A Persian city; the entry identifies the place as Persian, but does not explicitly explain the linguistic derivation of its name.
Unclear Metalinguistic	Its ethnic/demonymic form is Chandanakenos; this records the derivative form of the place name rather than explaining its origin.

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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	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	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people 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 1.315

char LCS 44 (67.7%) · word LCS 6 (66.7%)

Stephanos

Χανδανάκη, πόλις Περσική. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίας περιηγήσει. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Χανδανακηνός.

Herodian

…ισωδάρου. 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 τῆς Γεδρωσίας. Σαμυδάκη πόλις Καρμανίας. Χανδανάκη πόλις Περσική. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίας περιηγήσει. Ψιττάκη πόλις πρὸς τῷ Τίγριδι, ἐν ᾗ τὸ φυτὸν τῶν ψιττακίων, ὡς Δαμόφιλος. Τυράκη. οὕτως Τυρακίνας πόλιν Σικελίας Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν Εὐρώπῃ καλεῖ. Φυλάκη πόλις Θεσσαλίας »οἱ δ´ εἶχον Φυλάκην καὶ Πύρασον ἀνθεμόεντα« (Β 695) ἀ…