Ὀρβῖται - Stephanos Ethnika

Ὀρβῖται OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

people

Ὀρβῖται, ἔθνος Ἰνδικόν, ὡς Ἀπολλόδωρος δευτέρῳ, περὶ Ἀλεξάνδρειαν.

Orbitai: an Indian people, as Apollodoros in the second, around Alexandreia.

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	#81
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 494.14
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	9

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀπολλόδωρος (Apollodorus)	Περὶ γῆς · FGrHist 244 F 295 = fr. 1 Marcotte

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ὀρβῖται	Orvites (a people) · people
Ἰνδικός	Indians · people
Ἀλεξάνδρεια	Alexandria · place · corrected · Q87
Ὀρβῖται	place · explicit · wikidata: Q45790508 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Q45790508
Page scans	e9783110219630_i2003.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 (nominative AUTHOR NAME)... + ὡς αὐτός formula:4caae33810f40dfa	Translate as "X... as per X." Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES 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
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:f22af8012162d222	*Translate as 'as per X, in book Y of his Z'* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.76

char LCS 48 (87.3%) · word LCS 7 (87.5%)

Stephanos

Ὀρβῖται, ἔθνος Ἰνδικόν, ὡς Ἀπολλόδωρος δευτέρῳ, περὶ Ἀλεξάνδρειαν.

Herodian

…ν πρὸς τῇ Αἰθιοπίᾳ. Ἀλέξανδρος Αἰθιοπικῶν πρώτῳ. Ἰβηρίτης ὁ καὶ Ἴβηρ ἔθνος. Παρθένιος ἐν Λευκαδίᾳ »Ἰβηρίτῃ πλεύσει ἐν αἰγιαλῷ«. Νεφθαλίτης ἔθνος κρατῆσαν τῆς ἕω, ὡς Ἰώσηπος (A. I. 5, 1). Ὁμηρίτης ἔθνος Αἰθιόπων. Ὀρβίτης ἔθνος Ἰνδικόν, ὡς Ἀπολλόδωρος δευτέρῳ, περὶ Ἀλεξάνδρειαν. Σαυνίτης τῶν Ἰαπύγων ὅμορος. Τρωΐτης ποταμὸς Αἰγύπτου. ἀστίτης. Σοφοκλῆς Ἀλεξάνδρῳ »οὐ γάρ τι θεσμὰ τοῖσιν ἀστίταις πρέπει« καὶ »βοτῆρα νικᾶν ἄνδρας ἀστίτας. τί γάρ;« ἐντεῦθεν καὶ τὸ ἐν τῇ συνηθείᾳ προαστίτης. οὐ γὰρ π…