Διοβούλιον - Stephanos Ethnika

Διοβούλιον OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Διοβούλιον, πολίχνιον πλησίον τοῦ Πόντου. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Διοβουλιεύς, ὡς τὰ τῶν Φρυγίων πόλεων ἐθνικά.

Dioboulion: a small town near the Pontos. The ethnonym Diobouleus, like the ethnics of the Phrygian cities.

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 231.10
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-06
Word count	14

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Διοβούλιον	Dioboulion (Diobulion) · place
Πόντος	Pontus (the region/Black Sea) · place · corrected · Q621672
Διοβουλεύς	Diobouleus (ethnic name for inhabitants of Dioboulion) · people
Φρυγες	Phrygians · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon (demonym) is Διοβουλεύς, formed like the ethnica of the Phrygian cities.

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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... 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
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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
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	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
Gloss	πολίχνιον τό gloss:0f72866d544a72aa	town Domain: SETTLEMENTS/STRUCTURES 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 1.362

char LCS 35 (43.2%) · word LCS 5 (35.7%)

Stephanos

Διοβούλιον, πολίχνιον πλησίον τοῦ Πόντου. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Διοβουλιεύς, ὡς τὰ τῶν Φρυγίων πόλεων ἐθνικά.

Herodian

…λίας. Ἐπιτάλιον πόλις τῆς Τριφυλίας. Πολύβιος τετάρτῃ. Ἀμφιμάλιον πόλις Κρήτης ἀπὸ Ἀμφιμάλου. λέγεται καὶ Ἀμφίμαλα. Σανδάλιον Πισιδίας χωρίον. Ταυροπόλιον ἐν Ἰκαρίᾳ νήσῳ παρακειμένῃ τῇ Σάμῳ Ἀρτέμιδος ἱερόν. Στράβων ιδʹ. Διοβούλιον πολίχνιον πλησίον τοῦ Πόντου. Δασκύλιον πόλις Καρίας ἐπὶ τοῖς ὅροις τῆς Ἐφεσίας ἀπὸ Δασκύλου τοῦ υἱοῦ Περιαύδου. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα πόλις μετὰ τὰ Τρωϊκὰ κτισθεῖσα. τρίτη τῆς Ἰωνίας τὸ μέγα λεγόμενον ὡς μεῖζον τῶν ἄλλων. τετάρτη περὶ Βιθυνίαν. πέμπτη τῆ…