Φοινίκη - Stephanos Ethnika

Φοινίκη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Φοινίκη, ἡ χώρα, ἀπὸ τῆς Φοίνικος γενικῆς, ὡς Κρής Κρητός Κρήτη, Λίβυς Λίβυος Λιβύη. ὁ δὲ Φοῖνιξ ἦν Ἀγήνορος παῖς ἢ Ποσειδῶνος καὶ Λιβύης. ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ πρότερον Ῥαββώθη καὶ Κολπίτης. τὸ ἐθνικὸν τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ οἰκιστοῦ Φοῖνιξ, καὶ Φοινίκιος. τὸ κτητικὸν Φοινικικός. ἔστι καὶ Φοῖνιξ οὐ πολὺ ἀπέχων Ῥόδου. καὶ ποταμός ἐστι Φοῖνιξ.

Phoinike: Phoenicia, the region, from the genitive of 'Phoinix', as 'Kres' 'Kretos' Crete, 'Libys' 'Libyos' Libya. Phoinix was the son of Agenor, or of Poseidon and Libya. It was previously called 'Rhabbothe' and 'Kolpites'. The ethnic, with the name of the founder, 'Phoinix', and 'Phoinikios'. The possessive 'Phoinikikos'. There is also Phoinix, not far from Rhodes. And there is a river Phoinix.

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	#84
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 668.19
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-15
Word count	54

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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 · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	Matched · high 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
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES 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 · 1 scan row · 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	καί + X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + Y (nominative PROPER NOUN) formula:0af867b3dd6df580	Translate as "Y is also 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 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 · 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 · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
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 · 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
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 1.43

char LCS 32 (12.2%) · word LCS 6 (11.3%)

Stephanos

Φοινίκη, ἡ χώρα, ἀπὸ τῆς Φοίνικος γενικῆς, ὡς Κρής Κρητός Κρήτη, Λίβυς Λίβυος Λιβύη. ὁ δὲ Φοῖνιξ ἦν Ἀγήνορος παῖς ἢ Ποσειδῶνος καὶ Λιβύης. ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ πρότερον Ῥαββώθη καὶ Κολπίτης. τὸ ἐθνικὸν τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ οἰκιστοῦ Φοῖνιξ, καὶ Φοινίκιος. τὸ κτητικὸν Φοινικικός. ἔστι καὶ Φοῖνιξ οὐ πολὺ ἀπέχων Ῥόδου. καὶ ποταμός ἐστι Φοῖνιξ.

Herodian

…δὲ καὶ τὸ Καππάδοξ ἔθνος τῇ Κιλικίᾳ πρόσχωρον. τοῦτο δὲ λέγεται καὶ Καππάδοκος—οὕτως καὶ ὁ κτιστὴς εἴρηται ὑπὸ Μενάνδρου—καὶ Καππαδόκης. Ἡρόδοτος δέ φησιν (I 72). Τὰ εἰς 'ιξ' βαρύνεται· φοῖνιξ· ἔστι δὲ καὶ κύριον Φοῖνιξ Ἀγήνορος παῖς ἢ Ποσειδῶνος καὶ Λιβύης, ᾧ ὁμοφωνεῖ τὸ ἐθνικόν. ἔστι καὶ φρούριον Καρίας οὐ πολὺ ἀπέχον Ῥόδου. καὶ ποταμός ἐστι Φοῖνιξ. βέμβιξ, Τέμμιξ ἔθνος πρῶτον οἰκῆσαν ἐν Βοιωτίᾳ. Λυκόφρων «Ἄρνης παλαιᾶς γέννα, Τεμμίκων πρόμοι» (v. 644), πέμφιξ, τέττιξ, σ…