Φοινικοῦς - Stephanos Ethnika

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Φοινικοῦς, πόλις Κρήτης. ἔστι καὶ νῆσος πρὸς τῇ Λυκίᾳ. ἔστι καὶ Φοινικοῦς λιμήν. Θουκυδίδης ὀγδόῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Φοινικούντιος καὶ Φοινικούσιος, ὡς Σελινούντιος καὶ Σελινούσιος.

Phoinikous: Phoinikous, a city of Crete. There is also an island near Lycia. There is also the Phoinikous harbour. Thucydides in the eighth book. The ethnonym 'Phoinikountios' and 'Phoinikousios', as 'Selinountios' and 'Selinousios'.

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	#85
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 669.5
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-15
Word count	24

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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... + πρός + Y (dative) formula:1a524ea80fe79519	Translate as "X... near 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 · 1 occurrence
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 (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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.242

char LCS 79 (54.9%) · word LCS 15 (62.5%)

Stephanos

Φοινικοῦς, πόλις Κρήτης. ἔστι καὶ νῆσος πρὸς τῇ Λυκίᾳ. ἔστι καὶ Φοινικοῦς λιμήν. Θουκυδίδης ὀγδόῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Φοινικούντιος καὶ Φοινικούσιος, ὡς Σελινούντιος καὶ Σελινούσιος.

Herodian

…τόπον διὰ τὴν παρουσίαν τῆς δαίμονος ὑπὸ τρόμου διασαλευθῆναι, διὸ καὶ Τρεμιθοῦντα κληθῆναι. —Δαφνοῦς Φωκικὴ πόλις—ἔστι καὶ δῆμος πλησίον τῆς Κῶ ὁ Δαφνοῦς λεγόμενος—Σελινοῦς πόλις Σικελίας ἀρσενικῶς καὶ θηλυκῶς λεγομένη—Φοινικοῦς πόλις Κρήτης· ἔστι καὶ νῆσος πρὸς τῇ Λυκίᾳ· ἔστι καὶ Φοινικοῦς λιμήν. Θουκυδίδης ὀγδόῃ (c. 34). Φυκοῦς πόλις Λιβύης· κεῖται δὲ ὁ Φυκοῦς κατὰ τὸ Ταίναρον τῆς Πελοποννήσου. Θριοῦς πόλις πάλαι τῆς Ἀχαΐας, νῦν δὲ τῆς Ἠλείας ὅμορος Πάτραις. ἄλλοι δὲ ἀπὸ Θριοῦντος Ἀθηναίου, ὃν Θησεὺς ἔπεμψε μετὰ στρατιᾶς συμμαχ…

Herodian 1.97

char LCS 30 (20.8%) · word LCS 8 (33.3%)

Stephanos

Φοινικοῦς, πόλις Κρήτης. ἔστι καὶ νῆσος πρὸς τῇ Λυκίᾳ. ἔστι καὶ Φοινικοῦς λιμήν. Θουκυδίδης ὀγδόῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Φοινικούντιος καὶ Φοινικούσιος, ὡς Σελινούντιος καὶ Σελινούσιος.

Herodian

…ς κλινόμενα, ἐλπίς, ἀσπίς, ἔστι καὶ πόλις Λιβύης, ὡς Φίλων. ἔστι καὶ νῆσος πρὸς ταῖς Κυκλάσιν. ἔστι καὶ Μακεδονίας, κτίσμα Φιλίππου τοῦ πατρὸς Περσέως τὰς πόλεις ὀνομάσαντος ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτοῦ πανοπλίας Ἀσπίδα Περικεφαλαίαν. ἔστι καὶ νῆσος πρὸς τῇ Λυκίᾳ. ἔστι καὶ νῆσος ἄλλη μεταξὺ Λεβέδου καὶ Τέω, σταδίων ὡς δυοῖν, πρὸς μέν τινων Ἀρκόνησος, πρὸς δέ τινων Ἀσπίς ὀνομαζομένη. ἔστι καὶ νῆσος ἄλλη Ψύρων ἐγγύς. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη, ὡς Κλέων ὁ Συρακούσιος ἐν τῷ περὶ λιμένων, ἄδενδρος οὖσα. ἔ…