Δάνουβις ἢ Δάνουσις

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river

Δάνουβις ἢ Δάνουσις, Ἴστρος ὁ ποταμός, πάλαι Ματόας καλούμενος. συμφορᾶς δὲ τοῖς Σκύθαις ἐπιπεσούσης οὕτως ἐκλήθη. Ματόας δὲ λέγεται ἐς τὴν Ἑλληνίδα γλῶσσαν ἄσιος. ὅτι πολλάκις περαιούμενοι οὐδὲν ἐπεπόνθεισαν. ὁ δὲ Δάνουσις ἑρμηνεύεται ὥσπερ τοῦ ἁμαρτεῖν ἔχων αἰτίαν.

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Text Details

Entry	#14
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 217.24
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-01
Word count	38

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Δάναυβις	Danube (Danubius) · place
Δάναυβις	Danube (variant) · place
Ἴστρος	Ister (ancient name of the Danube) · place · corrected · Q1653
Ματόας	Matoas (old name/eponym for the river) · place
Σκύθαι	Scythians · people
Δάνουβις ἢ Δάνουσις	place · explicit · wikidata: Q1653 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	Danubis or Danousis (alternative names)
Unclear Metalinguistic	formerly called Matoas
Folk Etymology Narrative	and when misfortune befell the Scythians it was thus called
Folk Etymology Narrative	Matoas is said in the Greek tongue to be 'aisios' (auspicious/fortunate), because often when crossing they suffered nothing
Morphological Composition	But Danousis is interpreted as 'as having the cause of erring'

Links

Place links	Danube \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_041.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 1.87

char LCS 31 (13.9%) · word LCS 6 (15.8%)

Stephanos

Δάνουβις ἢ Δάνουσις, Ἴστρος ὁ ποταμός, πάλαι Ματόας καλούμενος. συμφορᾶς δὲ τοῖς Σκύθαις ἐπιπεσούσης οὕτως ἐκλήθη. Ματόας δὲ λέγεται ἐς τὴν Ἑλληνίδα γλῶσσαν ἄσιος. ὅτι πολλάκις περαιούμενοι οὐδὲν ἐπεπόνθεισαν. ὁ δὲ Δάνουσις ἑρμηνεύεται ὥσπερ τοῦ ἁμαρτεῖν ἔχ…

Herodian

… Κάραμβις ἄκρα τοῦ Πόντου. Πνέβεβις πόλις Αἰγύπτου, Ψινέκταβις κώμη Αἰγυπτία. Νίσιβις πόλις ἐν τῇ Περαίᾳ τῇ πρὸς τῷ Τίγρητι. Φίλων ἐν Φοινικικοῖς Νάσιβις φησὶ διὰ τοῦ 'α'. σημαίνει δέ, ὥς φησι Φίλων, νάσιβις τὰς στήλας. Δάνουβις ἢ Δάνουσις Ἴστρος ὁ ποταμός. ἑρμηνεύεται δὲ ὥσπερ τοῦ ἁμαρτεῖν ἔχων αἰτίαν. Ἄνουβις, κάνναβις. σημείωσαι τὸ καλλαβίς. Τὰ εἰς 'γις' δισύλλαβα ὀξύνεται, εἰ μὴ ἄρχοιντο ἀπὸ τοῦ 'γ', αἰγίς, μαγίς, σφαγίς, σφραγίς, Βρυγίς. τὸ μέντοι Γέργις βαρύνεται· ἀ…