Δράκονον - Stephanos Ethnika

Δράκονον OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

mountain

Δράκονον, ὄρος νήσου τῆς Ἰκαρίας λεγομένης καὶ πόλις. Στράβων ιδʹ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Δρακόνιος ὡς Μυκόνιος, καὶ Δρακονεύς.

Drakonon: a mountain of the island called Ikaria, and a city. Strabo in the fourteenth. The ethnonym Drakonios as 'Mykonios', and Drakoneus.

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	#125
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 238.8
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-06
Word count	17

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	ιδ̅ (14,1,19 [C 639,11])

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Δράκονον	Drakonon · place · corrected · Q17629502
Ἰκαρία	Icaria · place · corrected · Q209576
Δρακόνιος	Drakonios / Drakonian (demonym) · people
Μυκώνιος	Mykonios / Mykonian (demonym) · people
Δρακονεύς	Drakoneus / Drakonian (demonym) · people
Δράκονον	place · explicit · wikidata: Q17629502 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon (demonym) Δρακόνιος, formed like Μυκόνιος, and also Δρακονεύς.
Unclear Metalinguistic	Drakonon: a mountain of the island called Icaria and a city.

Links

Place links	Dracanum \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_093.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 AUTHOR NAME)... + ὡς αὐτός formula:4caae33810f40dfa	Translate as "X... as per X." 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 (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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ὄρος ὁ gloss:184051ff413f789d	mountain, mount (X ὄρος = 'Mount X') Domain: TERRAIN/LANDMASSES	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 1.383

char LCS 53 (57.0%) · word LCS 10 (58.8%)

Stephanos

Δράκονον, ὄρος νήσου τῆς Ἰκαρίας λεγομένης καὶ πόλις. Στράβων ιδʹ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Δρακόνιος ὡς Μυκόνιος, καὶ Δρακονεύς.

Herodian

…ονον Λύκος ὁ Ῥηγῖνος χωρίον οἴεται εἶναι, Στράβων δὲ ἐν ἑπτακαιδεκάτῳ βιβλίῳ πόλιν φησὶ καὶ ἄλλοι. πόλις δὲ Λιβυφοινίκων. Ἅθμονον δῆμος τῆς Κεκροπίδος φυλῆς. τὸ μέντοι Ἁθμονῆζε καὶ Ἁθμονῆσι δοκεῖ ἀπὸ τῆς ἡ Ἁθμονή εἶναι. Δράκονον ὄρος νήσου τῆς Ἰκαρίας λεγομένης καὶ πόλις. Στράβων ιδʹ. Πρόαρνα πόλις Μηλιέων. τὸ δὲ Καικῖνον χωρίον Ἰταλικόν. Φίλιστος δευτέρῳ Σικελικῶν—προπερισπᾶται, ὀξύνεται δὲ τὸ Ἀδρανόν πόλις Σικελίας ἐν τῇ Αἴτνῃ ποταμὸν ὁμώνυμον ἔχουσα. λέγεται καὶ ἀρσενικῶς. καὶ Βοιανόν πόλις Σαυν…