Διοσκουριάς

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

Διοσκουριάς OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
island
Διοσκουριάς, μία τῶν ἐν Λιβύῃ Λευκῶν νήσων. ὁ νησιώτης Διοσκουρίτης. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα περὶ τὸν Πόντον, ἥ τις Σεβαστόπολις καλεῖται. καὶ πρότερον δὲ Αἶα ἐκικλήσκετο, ὡς Νικάνωρ. ὁ πολίτης Διοσκουριεύς. ἔστι καὶ ἐν τῇ Ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ νῆσος Διοσκουρίδου.

Dioskourias: one of the White Islands in Libya. The islander Dioskourites. There is also another around the Pontos, which is called Sebastopolis. And earlier it was called Aia, as Nikanor. The citizen Dioskourieus. There is also in the Erythraean Sea an island Dioskouridou.

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.

Translation Guidance

KindRuleGuidanceDetection
Formulaὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC)
formula:9b2896a329a36c7e
Translate as "a citizen is an 'X'"
Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS
Rule status: In progress
Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formulaὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME)
formula:d915b1886270056c
Translate as "as per X"
Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS
Rule status: In progress
Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Glossκαλεῖται/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 · 2 occurrences
Glossνησιώτης ὁ
gloss:ef8de9dec54fa178
islander
Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL
Rule status: In progress
Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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