Ἔγεστα - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἔγεστα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Ἔγεστα, πόλις Σικελίας, ἔνθα θερμὰ ὕδατα, ὡς Φίλων. ἀπὸ Ἐγέστου τοῦ Τρωός. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἐγεσταῖος, καὶ θηλυκῶς.

Egesta: a city in Sicily, where there are hot springs, as Philon says. It is named after Egestos the Trojan. The ethnonym is 'Egestaios', also in the feminine.

Text Details

Entry	#8
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 260.9
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-07
Word count	17
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Φίλων (Philon/Philo)	FGrHist 790 F 36

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἔγεστα	Egesta (Aegesta) · place · corrected · Q692847
Σικελία	Sicily · place · corrected · Q4951156
Ἐγέστος	Egestus · person
Τρῶες	Trojans · people
Ἐγεσταῖος	Egestaean (demonym) · people
Ἔγεστα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q692847 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	from Egestus (Aegestus) of Troy.

Links

Place links	Segesta \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_157.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES 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 PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS 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 · 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	γένος τό gloss:c746b76469e4485d	descent Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL 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 1.271

char LCS 58 (67.4%) · word LCS 12 (70.6%)

Stephanos

Ἔγεστα, πόλις Σικελίας, ἔνθα θερμὰ ὕδατα, ὡς Φίλων. ἀπὸ Ἐγέστου τοῦ Τρωός. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἐγεσταῖος, καὶ θηλυκῶς.

Herodian

…τεμίτα. Ῥιανὸς ηʹ Θεσσαλικῶν «νήσοις Ὀξείῃσι καὶ Ἀρτεμίτῃ ἐπέβαλλον». Φουρνίτα πόλις Λιβύης. Κοτύρτα χωρίον Λακωνικόν. Θουκυδίδης ( 4, 56). τὰ δὲ βραχυκατάληκτα προπαροξύνεται, δίαιτα, Ἕρβιτα πόλις Σικελίας. Ἔφορος κηʹ. Ἔγεστα πόλις Σικελίας, ἔνθα θερμὰ ὕδατα ὡς Φίλων. ἀπὸ Ἐγέστου τοῦ Τρωός. Λάδεστα μία τῶν Λιβυρνίδων νήσων. λέγεται καὶ Λάδεστον. Θεόπομπος καʹ Φιλιππικῶν. Αὔγουσται πόλεις ἐν Κιλικίᾳ καὶ Ἰταλίᾳ. Εὔφραντα πόλις Λιβυκή, Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν τρίτῳ Λιβυκῶν. Τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'αια' καὶ 'υια' δισύλλαβα προπερι…