Ὀρέστη - Stephanos Ethnika

Ὀρέστη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Ὀρέστη, πόλις [Εὐβοίας]. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπης περιηγήσει. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὀρέσται ὁμοίως.

Oreste: a city. Hekataios in the Periegesis of Europe. The ethnonym Orestai likewise.

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	#88
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 495.7
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	10

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Εὐρώπης · FGrHist 1 F 130

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ὀρέστη	Orestē (city) · place
Εὔβοια	Euboea · place · corrected · Q173096
Εὐρώπη	Europe · place
Ὀρέσται	Orestae (the people) · people

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES 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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 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 · 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 1.344

char LCS 43 (66.2%) · word LCS 6 (60.0%)

Stephanos

Ὀρέστη, πόλις [Εὐβοίας]. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπης περιηγήσει. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὀρέσται ὁμοίως.

Herodian

…αι. ἔστι καὶ Σπάρτη κώμη πλησίον τοῦ Εὐξείνου πόντου. Σάρτη πόλις περὶ τὸν Ἄθων, Πέμπτη πόλις Αἰγύπτου. Τὰ εἰς 'τη' ὑπερδισύλλαβα ἔχοντα κατὰ σύλληψιν σύμφωνον ἢ πρὸ τέλους τὸ 'ρ' κύρια ὄντα βαρύνεται, Ἀδρήστη, Ἰοκάστη. Ὀρέστη πόλις Εὐβοίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπης περιηγήσει. Ἀκέστη πόλις Σικελίας καὶ Ἄγεστα, παρὰ τὸν Ἀκέστην. Μεγίστη πόλις καὶ νῆσος τῆς Λυκίας, ὡς πολυίστωρ, ἀπὸ Μεγιστέως τινός. Δολιχίστη· οὕτως Ἀλέξανδρος