Ὀξυδράκαι - Stephanos Ethnika

Ὀξυδράκαι OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

people

Ὀξυδράκαι, ἔθνος Ἰνδικόν, ἀφ´ ὧν σώσας Ἀλέξανδρον Πτολεμαῖος σωτὴρ ἐκλήθη. οἱ δὲ ψεῦδος τὸ περὶ τῶν Ὀξυδρακῶν.

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Text Details

Entry	#77
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 494.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	17

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ὀξυδράκαι	Oxydracai · people · corrected · Q25377606
Ὀξυδράκαι	Oxydracai · people · corrected · Q25377606
Ἀλέξανδρος	Alexander · person
Πτολεμαῖος	Ptolemy · person · corrected · Q168261
Ὀξυδράκαι	place · explicit · wikidata: Q25377606 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Folk Etymology Narrative	From whom, having saved Alexander, Ptolemy (was) called 'Soter' (the Savior).

Links

Place links	Oxydracae
Page scans	e9783110219630_i2003.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Gloss	καλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται/ἐκλήθη (ἀπο...) gloss:ef7a95cd709173ed	is/used to be/is/was called/named after (+ ἀπο) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	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 1.69

char LCS 80 (89.9%) · word LCS 16 (94.1%)

Stephanos

Ὀξυδράκαι, ἔθνος Ἰνδικόν, ἀφ´ ὧν σώσας Ἀλέξανδρον Πτολεμαῖος σωτὴρ ἐκλήθη. οἱ δὲ ψεῦδος τὸ περὶ τῶν Ὀξυδρακῶν.

Herodian

Δαδίκης ἔθνος Περσικόν. Ἡρόδοτος ἑβδόμῃ (c. 66). Ὀξυδράκης ἔθνος Ἰνδικόν, ἀφ´ ὧν σώσας Ἀλέξανδρον Πτολεμαῖος σωτὴρ ἐκλήθη· οἱ δὲ ψεῦδος τὸ περὶ τῶν Ὀξυδρακῶν. Δερβίκκης ἔθνος πλησίον τῶν Ὑρκανῶν. Ἀπολλώνιος δὲ δὶς τὸ 'κ' καλῶς γράφει. Κτησίας δὲ Δερβισσοὺς αὐτούς φησιν ἢ Τερβισσούς. Καππαδόκης. Ἡρόδοτος δέ φησιν (I 72). λέγεται καὶ Καππάδοξ καὶ Καππάδοκος. Καραμβύκης ἔθνος Ὑ…