Χατραμωτῖτις - Stephanos Ethnika

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Χατραμωτῖτις, χώρα πλησίον τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης. οἱ πολῖται Χατραμωτῖται. Στράβων ἑκκαιδεκάτῃ “Γερραῖοι δ´ εἰς τὴν Χατραμωτῖτιν”. καὶ πάλιν “πρὸς ἕω μάλιστα Χατραμωτῖται”. Οὐράνιος δ´ ἐν πρώτῳ Ἀραβικῶν Χατραμώτας αὐτοὺς καλεῖ “καμηλοκόμοι Χατραμῶται Σαβαῖοι καὶ Ὁμηρῖται”.

Chatramotitis: a region near the Red Sea. The citizens are 'Chatramotitai'. Strabo, in book 16: ‘The Gerrhaioi, however, [go] into Chatramotitis.’ And again: ‘Furthest towards the east are the Chatramotitai.’ Ouranios, in book 1 of his Arabika, calls them Chatramotai: ‘camel-keepers, Chatramotai, Sabaioi, and Homeritai.’

AI translation — gpt-5.6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#31
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 689.8
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-12
Word count	35
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	16.4.4 (C 768,25); 16.4.2 (C 768,11)
Οὐράνιος (Uranius)	Arabica (Ἀραβικά) · FGrHist 675 F 4
Ἀραβικά (Arabica)	Arabica (Ἀραβικά) · FGrHist 675 F 4

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Χατραμωτῖτις	Chatramotitis (the land of the Chatramotae) · place
Ἐρυθρὰ θάλασσα	Red Sea · place
Χατραμωτῖται	Chatramotae · people
Χατραμωτῖτις	Chatramotitis · place
Χατραμωτῖται	Chatramotae · people
Χατραμώτης	Chatramotae/Chatramotans · people
Χατραμώτης	Chatramotae/Chatramotans · people
Σαβαῖοι	Sabaeans · people
Ὁμηρῖται	Homeritae · people
Χατραμωτῖτις	place · explicit · pleiades: 39273 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	Ḥaṭramawt/Chatramotis is a country near the Red Sea; its inhabitants are called Chatramotitae. Strabo mentions the Gerrhaeans going into Chatramotis and says that the Chatramotitae are situated especially toward the east. Ouranius calls them Chatramotae, describing them as camel-breeders, together with the Sabaeans and Homeritae. The passage identifies the place and its inhabitants but does not explain the origin of the name.

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (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
Formula	X... πλησίον + Y. (genitive) formula:3d243d130e764a8b	Translate as "X... near 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	πολίτης ὁ gloss:1c7dda400d7265cb	citizen 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 1.106

char LCS 45 (20.1%) · word LCS 7 (20.0%)

Stephanos

Χατραμωτῖτις, χώρα πλησίον τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης. οἱ πολῖται Χατραμωτῖται. Στράβων ἑκκαιδεκάτῃ “Γερραῖοι δ´ εἰς τὴν Χατραμωτῖτιν”. καὶ πάλιν “πρὸς ἕω μάλιστα Χατραμωτῖται”. Οὐράνιος δ´ ἐν πρώτῳ Ἀραβικῶν Χατραμώτας αὐτοὺς καλεῖ “καμηλοκόμοι Χατραμῶται Σαβαῖοι καὶ Ὁμηρῖται”.

Herodian

…η· ἀπὸ δὲ ταύτης εἰς τὴν Χαλκῖτιν λεγομένην πόλιν στάδια τεσσαράκοντα». ἔστι καὶ πόλις Χαλκῖτις ἐν Μεσσαπίᾳ τῆς Ἰταλίας· ἔστι καὶ χώρα ἐν Σκυθίᾳ, ὡς Ἑρμείας ἐν περιηγήσει. Χατραμωτῖτις χώρα πλησίον τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης, Στράβων ἑκκαιδεκάτῃ «Γερραῖοι δ´ εἰς τὴν Χατραμωτῖτιν». Ὠκεανῖτις, Μαρωνεῖτις, Σαλωνεῖτις, ἠεροφοῖτις, Ἀσιᾶτις, Ἀπολλωνιᾶτις, Δερεᾶτις Ἄρτεμις, Καρυᾶτις, Καυλωνιᾶτις, Κροτωνιᾶτις, Μαλεᾶτις, Μιδεᾶτις, Μυρλεᾶτις χώρα Βιθυνίας, Ναυκρατιᾶτις, Πισᾶτις, Πλαταιᾶτις, Πυλᾶτις «Πυλά…