Δοῦρα - Stephanos Ethnika

Δοῦρα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Δοῦρα, πόλις Μεσοποταμίας, ὡς Πολύβιος πέμπτῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Δουρηνός.

Doura: a city of Mesopotamia, as Polybios in the fifth. The ethnonym Dourenos.

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	#119
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 237.19
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-06
Word count	9

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Πολύβιος (Polybius)	ε (5,52,2)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Δοῦρα	Doura (Dura) · place · corrected · Q464266
Μεσοποταμία	Mesopotamia · place
Δουρηνός	Dourenos (ethnic of Doura) · people
Δοῦρα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q464266 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Dura-Europos \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_091.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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	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 (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:f22af8012162d222	*Translate as 'as per 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 (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 1.384

char LCS 38 (69.1%) · word LCS 6 (66.7%)

Stephanos

Δοῦρα, πόλις Μεσοποταμίας, ὡς Πολύβιος πέμπτῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Δουρηνός.

Herodian

…μένων τὸ αὐτό. ἔστι καὶ Δῶρα νῆσος ἐν τῷ Περσικῷ κόλπῳ, καθὰ Στράβων ιϛʹ «τὸν δὲ Μαζήνην ἐπάρχειν νήσου τινὸς τῶν ἐν τῷ Περσικῷ κόλπῳ, καλεῖσθαι δὲ τὴν νῆσον Δῶρα». Κῶρον πόλις τῆς Καππαδοκίας. μῶρον ὁ καρπὸς τῆς βάτου. Δοῦρα πόλις Μεσοποταμίας, ὡς Πολύβιος πέμπτῃ.