Ὠρῖται - Stephanos Ethnika

Ὠρῖται OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

people

Ὠρῖται, ἔθνος Ἰνδῶν αὐτόνομον. Στράβων πεντεκαιδεκάτῃ “τῷ ὁρίζοντι αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ τῶν ἑξῆς Ὠριτῶν· Ἰνδῶν δέ ἐστι καὶ αὕτη μερίς, ἔθνος αὐτόνομον”. καὶ Ἀπολλόδωρος δευτέρῳ “ἔπειτα δ´ Ὠρίτας τε καὶ Γεδρωσίους, ὧν τοὺς μὲν Ἰνδοὺς ὡς ἐνοικοῦντας πέτραν ...”

Oreitai: an autonomous people of the Indians. Strabo, book 15: 'the one separating them from the Oreitai next after them; this too is a division of the Indians, an autonomous people.' And Apollodoros, book 2: 'and then the Oreitai and Gedrosioi, of whom the former are Indians, since they inhabit Petra...'

AI translation — gpt-5.5; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#17
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 710.9
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-14
Word count	37
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	15.2.1 [C 720,18]
Ἀπολλόδωρος (Apollodorus)	FGrHist 244 F 313 = fr. 2 Marcotte

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ὠρῖται	Orites · people
Ἰνδοί	Indians · people
Ὠρῖται	Orites · people
Ἰνδοί	Indians · people
Ὠρῖται	Orites · people
Γεδρώσιοι	Gedrosians · people
Ἰνδοί	Indians · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	“Orites: an autonomous tribe of the Indians … this too is a region of the Indians, an autonomous tribe … then the Orites and the Gedrosians, of whom the former are Indians, as dwelling beyond.” The passage identifies the Orites as an Indian people/region, but does not explain the linguistic origin or formation of the name Ὠρῖται.

Links

Place links	Oreitai
Page scans	../graphic/page_146_001.png
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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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	Matched · low confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.76

char LCS 136 (68.7%) · word LCS 24 (64.9%)

Stephanos

Ὠρῖται, ἔθνος Ἰνδῶν αὐτόνομον. Στράβων πεντεκαιδεκάτῃ “τῷ ὁρίζοντι αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ τῶν ἑξῆς Ὠριτῶν· Ἰνδῶν δέ ἐστι καὶ αὕτη μερίς, ἔθνος αὐτόνομον”. καὶ Ἀπολλόδωρος δευτέρῳ “ἔπειτα δ´ Ὠρίτας τε καὶ Γεδρωσίους, ὧν τοὺς μὲν Ἰνδοὺς ὡς ἐνοικοῦντας πέτραν ...”

Herodian

…ουσι κρήνης φύλακα, χωρίτην ὄφιν«. καὶ Αἰσχύλος ἐν Λέοντι σατυρικῷ »ὁδοιπόρων δήλημα, χωρίτης δράκων«. καὶ Ἀπολλώνιος ἐν τῷ Κανώβῳ »τέρψει δὲ νηῶν ὁ γλυκύς σε χωρίτης πλόος κομίζων δῶρα πλουσίου Νείλου«. ἑδρίτης, Ὠρίτης ἔθνος Ἰνδῶν αὐτόνομον. Στράβων πεντεκαιδεκάτῃ »τῷ ὁρίζοντι αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ τῶν ἑξῆς Ὠριτῶν· Ἰνδῶν δέ ἐστι καὶ αὕτη μερίς, ἔθνος αὐτόνομον«. καὶ Ἀπολλόδωρος δευτέρῳ »ἔπειτα Ὠρίτας τε καὶ Γεδρωσίους, ὧν τοὺς μὲν Ἰνδοὺς ὡς ἐνοικοῦντας πέτραν....« Ὑθμίτης ἔθνος πρὸς τοῖς Λιβυρνοῖς καὶ Συωπίοις, ὥς φησιν Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Αὐσχίτης ἔθνος Λιβύης ὑπὲρ Βάρκης, Ἀπολλόδωρος περὶ γῆς δευτέρῳ. Ἀμαλεκίτ…