Δέλτα - Stephanos Ethnika

Δέλτα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Δέλτα, πόλις πρὸς τῇ Συρίᾳ, καὶ νῆσος Αἰγύπτου, ὡς Ἔφορος, κατ´ Αἰγυπτίους καλουμένη Πτίμυρις ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ σχήματος ὁμοιότητος. ἐθνικὸν τῆς νήσου Δελτίτης, τῆς δὲ πόλεως Δελτηνός τῷ ἐγχωρίῳ τύπῳ· οὐ γὰρ ἐνετύχομεν.

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Text Details

Entry	#47
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 224.16
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-02
Word count	33

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἔφορος (Ephorus)	FGrHist 70 F 169

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Δέλτα	Delta · place
Συρία	Syria · place · corrected · Q13415123
Αἴγυπτος	Egypt · place · corrected · Q11768
Αἰγύπτιοι	Egyptians · people
Πτίμυρις	Ptimyris · place
Δελτίτης	Deltites (ethnicon) · people
Δελτηνός	Deltēnos (local form of the city's name) · place
Delta in Syria	place · city · Syria · explicit · unresolved
Delta island in Egypt	place · island · Egypt · implicit · unresolved

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Borrowing Non Greek	Called 'Ptimyris' by the Egyptians.
Morphological Composition	From the similarity of its shape (i.e. named for the shape of the delta).
Morphological Composition	The ethnic (demonym) of the island is 'Deltites', and of the city 'Deltenos' in the local form.

Links

Place links	delta
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
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 (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	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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.351

char LCS 68 (39.5%) · word LCS 13 (39.4%)

Stephanos

Δέλτα, πόλις πρὸς τῇ Συρίᾳ, καὶ νῆσος Αἰγύπτου, ὡς Ἔφορος, κατ´ Αἰγυπτίους καλουμένη Πτίμυρις ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ σχήματος ὁμοιότητος. ἐθνικὸν τῆς νήσου Δελτίτης, τῆς δὲ πόλεως Δελτηνός τῷ ἐγχωρίῳ τύπῳ· οὐ γὰρ ἐνετύχομεν.

Herodian

…τοῦ 'α' οὐκ ἔχει τὸ 'μ' διὰ τὸ μὴ εἶναι μονογενές, ἀπὸ γὰρ τοῦ μέγας. τὸ γὰρ Πάσχα βάρβαρον, διὸ ὃ καὶ ἄκλιτον. τὸ φάβα καὶ αὐτὸ βάρβαρον, εἰ καὶ κλίνοιτο. καὶ τὰ τῶν στοιχείων ὀνόματα, ἄλφα, βῆτα, γάμμα, δέλτα—ἔστι καὶ Δέλτα πόλις πρὸς τῇ Συρίᾳ καὶ νῆσος Αἰγύπτου, ὡς Ἔφορος, κατ´ Αἰγυπτίους καλουμένη Πυραμίς ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ σχήματος ὁμοιότητος—βάρβαρα καὶ ἄκλιτά εἰσιν. τὸ δὲ ἄλειφα ἐγένετο ἐκ τοῦ ἄλειφαρ ἢ ἄλειφας ὑποστολῇ τοῦ 'ρ' ἢ τοῦ 'ς', τὸ δὲ λίπα ἐκ τοῦ