Ὄραθα - Stephanos Ethnika

Ὄραθα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Ὄραθα, πόλις τῆς ἐν Τίγρητι Μεσήνης. Ἀρριανὸς Παρθικῶν ἑκκαιδεκάτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὀραθηνός.

Oratha: a city of Mesene on the Tigris. Arrian in the sixteenth of the Parthika. The ethnonym Orathenos.

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	#82
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 494.12
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	12

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀρριανός (Arrian)	Παρθικῶν · FGrHist 156 F 47 = fr. 16 Roos
Παρθικά (Parthica (work))	Παρθικῶν

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ὄραθα	Oratha · place
Πίγρητι	Pigrēti (locality in Messenia) · place
Μεσσήνη	Messene · place
Ὀραθηνός	Orathenos (ethnic/demonym of Oratha) · people
Ὄραθα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q12975904 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Orathanadu Taluk \| 📍 Map
Page scans	e9783110219630_i2003.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS 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 · 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	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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.380

char LCS 56 (76.7%) · word LCS 9 (75.0%)

Stephanos

Ὄραθα, πόλις τῆς ἐν Τίγρητι Μεσήνης. Ἀρριανὸς Παρθικῶν ἑκκαιδεκάτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὀραθηνός.

Herodian

… * Τὰ εἰς 'θον' οὐδέτερα κύρια βαρύνεται, Τρικόρυνθον οὐδετέρως Δίδυμος καὶ Διόδωρος, Διονύσιος ἀρσενικῶς, Εὐφορίων θηλυκῶς. ἔστι δὲ δῆμος τῆς Αἰαντίδος φυλῆς. Δούμαθα πόλις Ἀραβίας. Κάναθα πόλις πρὸς τῇ Βόστρᾳ Ἀραβίας. Ὄραθα πόλις τῆς ἐν Τίγρητι Μεσήνης. Ἀρριανὸς Παρθικῶν ἑκκαιδεκάτῳ. Σίγαθα πόλις Λιβύης, ὡς Στράβων ἑπτακαιδεκάτῃ. Ἄμαθα τῆς Ἀραβίας χωρίον. κέκληται δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς ἄμμου. φασὶ γὰρ τὸ πολὺ τῆς Ἀραβίας ὑπὸ τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς πάλαι κατακλύζεσθαι. * Τὰ εἰς 'κον' κύρια βαρύνεται, Μάζακα πόλις Καππαδο…