Δεκίητον - Stephanos Ethnika

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Δεκίητον, πόλις Ἰταλίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Δεκιῆται, ὡς Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἐν αʹ γεωγραφουμένων.

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Text Details

Entry	#45
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 224.12
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-02
Word count	11

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀρτεμίδωρος (Artemidorus)	Γεωγραφουμένων · fr. 41 Stiehle

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Δεκίητον	Dekiēton (city) · place · corrected · Q3813471
Ἰταλία	Italy · place
Δεκιῆται	the Dekietans (inhabitants of Dekiēton) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	the ethnic (demonym) is 'Δεκιῆται' — i.e. the inhabitants are called Dekietai

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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	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	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 · 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 · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.74

char LCS 30 (44.8%) · word LCS 5 (45.5%)

Stephanos

Δεκίητον, πόλις Ἰταλίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Δεκιῆται, ὡς Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἐν αʹ γεωγραφουμένων.

Herodian

…νήτης, νικήτης, κωμήτης, λιπερνήτης ὁ πρότερον πλούσιος, ὕστερον δὲ πένης παρὰ τὸ λείπεσθαι ἐρνέων ἤγουν φυτῶν. Δανθαλήτης ἔθνος Θρᾳκικόν. Θεόπομπος μή. Δασσαρήτης ἔθνος Ἰλλυρίας. Πολύβιος ὀγδόῳ. Δεκιήτης ἔθνος Ἰταλίας, ὡς Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἐν αʹ γεωγραφουμένων. Γαζήτης ἔθνος Γαλατῶν χρυσοφοροῦν. Σιδήτης, πολιήτης κατὰ πλεονασμὸν τοῦ 'η' ὥσπερ μυθιήτης καὶ Κεραμιήτης καὶ Ἰουλιήτης ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἰουλίτης. Αἰγινήτης κατὰ τροπὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ Αἰγινάτης· ἔστι καὶ Αἰγινήτης πολίχνιον καὶ ποταμ…