Φασηλοῦσσαι - Stephanos Ethnika

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island

Φασηλοῦσσαι, δύο νῆσοι Λιβύης πλησίον Σίριος ποταμοῦ. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Λιβύης. οἱ νησιῶται Φασηλουσσαῖοι ὡς Σκοτουσσαῖοι.

Phaseloussai: two islands off Libya near the Sirios River. Hekataios in his Periegesis of Libya. The islanders are called 'Phaseloussaioi', as in 'Skotoussaioi'.

AI translation — gpt-6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#41
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 660.17
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-15
Word count	15
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Περιήγησις Λιβύης (Description of Libya) · FGrHist 1 F 353
Λιβύη (Libya)	Περιήγησις Λιβύης (Description of Libya) · FGrHist 1 F 353

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Φασηλοῦσσαι	Phaseloussai · place
Λιβύη	Libya · place
Σῖρις	Siris · place
Φασηλουσσαῖος	Phaseloussaians · people
Σκοτουσσαῖος	Scotoussians · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	The islanders are called Phaseloussaians, like the Skotoussaians.

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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... πλησίον + Y. (genitive) formula:3d243d130e764a8b	Translate as "X... near Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	νησιώτης ὁ gloss:ef8de9dec54fa178	islander 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 1.270

char LCS 69 (65.1%) · word LCS 10 (66.7%)

Stephanos

Φασηλοῦσσαι, δύο νῆσοι Λιβύης πλησίον Σίριος ποταμοῦ. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Λιβύης. οἱ νησιῶται Φασηλουσσαῖοι ὡς Σκοτουσσαῖοι.

Herodian

…ς ἐκαλεῖτο ἡ Σαρδὼ νῆσος διότι ἐοικυῖα ἦν ἀνθρώπου ἴχνει. Λοπαδοῦσσα νῆσος κατὰ Θάψον τῆς Λιβύης, ὡς Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἑβδόμῳ γεωγραφουμένων. Ναγιδοῦσσα νῆσος. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Ἀγαθοῦσσα· οὕτως ἐκαλεῖτο ἡ Τῆλος νῆσος, ὡς Ἰάσων. Φασηλοῦσσαι δύο νῆσοι Λιβύης πλησίον Σίριος ποταμοῦ. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Λιβύης. Δελφοῦσσα κρήνη τῶν Δελφῶν. Γηθοῦσσα πόλις Λιβύης. Γονοῦσσα πόλις Περραιβίας. Ἐλαφοῦσσα· οὕτως Ἕλληνες Βρεττίαν νῆσον ἐν τῷ Ἀδρίᾳ καλοῦσιν. Αἰγειροῦσσα πόλις Αἰολίδος, ὡς Ἡρόδοτος (I 148). Ἀνητοῦσσα πόλις Λιβύης. πλὴν …