Ἔδδανα - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἔδδανα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Ἔδδανα, πόλις πρὸς τῷ Εὐφράτῃ, κατοικία Φοινίκων, ἀπὸ Ἐδδανοῦ ἡγεμόνος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἐδδανεύς.

Eddana: a city near the Euphrates, a settlement of Phoenicians, after Eddanos, a leader. The ethnonym is 'Eddaneus'.

Text Details

Entry	#11
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 260.16
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-07
Word count	13
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἔδδανα	Eddana · place
Εὐφράτης	Euphrates · place · corrected · Q34589
Φοίνικες	Phoenicians · people · corrected · Q41642
Ἐδδανός	Eddanos · person
Ἐδδανεύς	Eddaneus (ethnic name) · people
Ἔδδανα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q108275754 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	from Eddanos, the leader (i.e. named after Eddanos)
Borrowing Non Greek	a settlement/colony of Phoenicians
Morphological Composition	the ethnicon (demonym) is 'Eddaneus'

Links

Place links	Eddana (Pauly-Wissowa)
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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	X... + πρός + Y (dative) formula:1a524ea80fe79519	Translate as "X... near 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
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 1.383

char LCS 58 (77.3%) · word LCS 10 (76.9%)

Stephanos

Ἔδδανα, πόλις πρὸς τῷ Εὐφράτῃ, κατοικία Φοινίκων, ἀπὸ Ἐδδανοῦ ἡγεμόνος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἐδδανεύς.

Herodian

Δρέπανα πόλις Σικελίας. ἔστι καὶ Δρέπανον πόλις Λιβύης. εἰσὶ καὶ νησία δύο παρὰ Λέβινθον. Ἔδδανα πόλις πρὸς τῷ Εὐφράτῃ, κατοικία Φοινίκων, ἀπὸ Ἐδδανοῦ ἡγεμόνος. Ἄδανα Κίλισσα πόλις. ταύτην ᾤκισεν Ἄδανος καὶ Σάρος, Ταρσεῦσι πολεμήσαντες καὶ ἡττηθέντες, ἀφ´ ὧν ἡ πόλις ἀπὸ τοῦ ἡγεμόνος Ἄδανα. Ὄμανα πόλις τῆς εὐδαίμονος Ἀραβίας. Γλαῦκος δευτέρῳ Ἀραβικῆς ἀρχαιολογίας. Πρώανα πόλις …

Herodian 1.179

char LCS 24 (32.0%) · word LCS 5 (38.5%)

Stephanos

Ἔδδανα, πόλις πρὸς τῷ Εὐφράτῃ, κατοικία Φοινίκων, ἀπὸ Ἐδδανοῦ ἡγεμόνος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἐδδανεύς.

Herodian

σφεδανός, Ἀπιδανός ποταμὸς τῆς Τρωάδος «ἐκβάλλων εἰς τὴν ἑσπέριον θάλασσαν» ὡς Δημήτριός φησι κατὰ Τιμοσθένην, Ῥοδανός ποταμός, Ἠριδανός ποταμός, Ἐδδανός, ἀφ´ οὗ Ἔδδανα πόλις πρὸς τῷ Εὐφράτῃ. ἐφυλάξατο δὲ ὁ κανὼν «τὸ 'ρ' πρὸ τοῦ 'δ' ὑπάρχον» διὰ τὸ Δάρδανος πόλις Τρωάδος. Μνασέας «Δάρδανος ἐξιὼν ἐκ τοῦ νεὼ τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς τὸ παλλάδιον ἀράμενος ἀφίκετο εἰς Σαμοθρᾴκην μετὰ Ἁρμονίας καὶ Ἰασίωνος ἑνὸς τῶν ἀδελφῶν, κ…