Φασαηλίς - Stephanos Ethnika

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Φασαηλίς, πόλις τῆς Ἰουδαίας, ὑπὸ Ἡρώδου κτισθεῖσα τοῦ πρώτου βασιλέως τῆς χώρας, τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ, ὡς Ἰώσηπος ἐν αʹ τοῦ πρὸς Ῥωμαίους πολέμου. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Φασαηλίτης, ὡς αὐτὸς ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ.

Phasaelis: a city in Ioudaia, founded by Herod, the first king of the region, and named after his brother, as per Iosepos in book 1 of his War against the Romans. The ethnonym is 'Phasaelites', as per the same author in the same book.

AI translation — gpt-6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#39
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 660.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-15
Word count	32
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἰώσηπος (Josephus)	Πρὸς Ῥωμαίους πόλεμος (The Jewish War) · 1.418; 1.428

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Φασαηλίς	Phasaelis · place
Ἰουδαία	Judaea · place
Ἡρώδης	Herod · person
Ῥωμαῖοι	Romans · people
Φασαηλίτης	Phasaelite · people
Φασαηλίς	place · explicit · pleiades: 688003 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	Founded by Herod, the first king of the country, and named after his brother.

Links

Place links	Phasaelis \| 📍 Map
Page scans	../graphic/page_022_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 · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative BOOK NAME) formula:c795eaabedf9a542	*Translate as "Χ, in his Y"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 4 occurrences
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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	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
Formula	Χ (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:c22408ee90fd1a1e	*Translate as "X, in book Y of his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 3 occurrences
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 · 2 occurrences
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
Formula	ὡς + X (definite ARTICLE + ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:bcd70ae781e7b205	Translate as "just as 'Y' is from the name X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · medium confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:7163e35f4bd326d9	Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	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 1.91

char LCS 120 (77.9%) · word LCS 24 (75.0%)

Stephanos

Φασαηλίς, πόλις τῆς Ἰουδαίας, ὑπὸ Ἡρώδου κτισθεῖσα τοῦ πρώτου βασιλέως τῆς χώρας, τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ, ὡς Ἰώσηπος ἐν αʹ τοῦ πρὸς Ῥωμαίους πολέμου. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Φασαηλίτης, ὡς αὐτὸς ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ.

Herodian

…δ´ ὦκα περιτρέφεται κυκόωντι» (Il. Ε 903). Τὰ εἰς 'λις' ὑπερδισύλλαβα παραληγόμενα 'η' βαρύνεται, κάπηλις, κύβηλις ὁ πέλυξ, ἔπηλις τὸ πῶμα τῆς λάρνακος, τρόπηλις ἡ δέσμη τῶν σκορόδων. Μέτηλις πόλις πλησίον Ἀλεξανδρείας, Φασάηλις πόλις τῆς Ἰουδαίας ὑπὸ Ἡρώδου κτισθεῖσα τοῦ πρώτου βασιλέως τῆς χώρας, τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ, ὡς Ἰώσηπος ἐν αʹ τοῦ πρὸς Ῥωμαίους πολέμου (c. 16), Ὕψηλις κώμη Αἰγύπτου, Φάσηλις νῆσος Παμφυλίας. τὸ μέντοι ἀγγεῖον ὀξύνεται. Τὰ εἰς δύο 'λλ' ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβὰς ὀξύνεται, εἰ μὴ ἐπιθετικὰ παρώνυμα εἴη γενόμενα ἀπὸ τῶν εἰς 'ης', κορυδαλλίς, ἀναβαλλίς ἡ σφαῖρα, συκ…