Διωνία - Stephanos Ethnika

Διωνία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Διωνία, πόλις, ἣν συγκαταλέγει ταῖς Κυπρίαις πόλεσι Θεόπομπος πεντεκαιδεκάτῃ Φιλιππικῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Διωνιᾶται ὡς Κυδωνιᾶται.

Dionia: a city, which Theopompos reckons among the Cypriot cities in the fifteenth of the Philippika. The ethnonym Dioniatai as 'Kydoniatai'.

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	#101
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 234.20
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-06
Word count	15

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Θεόπομπος (Theopompus)	Φιλιππικῶν · FGrHist 115 F 115

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Διωνία	Dionia (city) · place
Κύπρος	Cyprus (Cyprian cities) · place
Διωνιᾶται	Demonym: inhabitants of Dionia (Dionians) · people
Κυδωνιᾶται	Demonym: inhabitants of Cydonia (Cydonians) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnic name (demonym) 'Διωνιάται' is formed like 'Κυδωνιάται' (i.e. the ethnicon for Διωνία is analogous to that of Κύδων/Κυδωνία).

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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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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	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 (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS 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 · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.297

char LCS 76 (71.7%) · word LCS 10 (66.7%)

Stephanos

Διωνία, πόλις, ἣν συγκαταλέγει ταῖς Κυπρίαις πόλεσι Θεόπομπος πεντεκαιδεκάτῃ Φιλιππικῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Διωνιᾶται ὡς Κυδωνιᾶται.

Herodian

…ωνομάσθη δὲ Κεστρινία. Γρηστωνία χώρα Θρᾴκης πρὸς τῇ Μακεδονίᾳ. Θουκυδίδης δευτέρᾳ ( 99, 100). Δαρδανία· οὕτω πρότερον ἐκαλεῖτο ἡ Σαμοθρᾴκη· καὶ Δαρδανία χώρα Τρῳάδος, ἣ Τευκρὶς πρότερον ἐκαλεῖτο. Δαρσανία πόλις Ἰνδική. Διωνία πόλις, ἣν συγκαταλέγει ταῖς Κυπρίαις πόλεσι Θεόπομπος πεντεκαιδεκάτῃ Φιλιππικῶν. Ἐλινία χώρα Θεσπρωτίας. Ζειρηνία πόλις Θρᾴκης. Θεόπομπος Φιλιππικῶν γʹ. Ζηρανία χώρα Θρᾴκης. Ἔφορος εἰκοστῷ ἑβδόμῳ. Καρμανία χώρα τῆς Ἰνδικῆς. Στράβων πεντεκαιδεκάτῃ. Καρνία πόλις Ἰωνίας. Νικόλαος τετάρτῳ. Κρημνία· οὕτ…