Ἑλένειος - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἑλένειος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

place

Ἑλένειος, τόπος πρὸς τῷ Κανώβῳ, Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Λιβύης. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἑλενειεύς.

Heleneios: a place near Kanobos, mentioned by Hekataios in his Periegesis of Libya. The ethnonym is 'Heleneieus'.

AI translation — gpt-6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#43
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 265.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-07
Word count	11
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Περιηγήσει Λιβύης · FGrHist 1 F 309

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἐλένειος	Elen(e)ios (place) · place
Κανώβης	Canopus (Canobus) · place · corrected · Q1145180
Λιβύη	Libya · place · corrected · Q2370577
Ἐλενειεύς	Elenieus (ethnicon) · people
Ἑλένειος	place · place · explicit · wikidata: Q12876853 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Q12876853
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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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.136

char LCS 49 (73.1%) · word LCS 8 (72.7%)

Stephanos

Ἑλένειος, τόπος πρὸς τῷ Κανώβῳ, Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Λιβύης. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἑλενειεύς.

Herodian

…πεὶ φιλεῖ διὰ τοῦ 'ι' γράφεσθαι ἡ παραγωγή, πελάγιος, ἅγιος, Θάλπιος. Τὰ εἰς 'ειος' ὑπερτρισύλλαβα μὴ πλεοναζούσης τῆς 'ει' διφθόγγου προπαροξύνεται, Αἰάντειος, Ὁμήρειος, γαλήνειος, Ἱππάρχειος. Ἀλεξάνδρειος, Ἀντιόχειος, Ἑλένειος τόπος πρὸς τῷ Κανώβῳ, Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Λιβύης· Βοσπόρειος. Σοφοκλῆς ἐν Φινεῖ πρώτῳ «οὐδ´ ἂν τὸ Βοσπόρειον ἐν Σκύθαις ὕδωρ». Ἰνάχειος ὡς Αἰσχύλος Προμηθεῖ δεσμώτῃ (v. 589) πῶς δ´ οὐ κλύω τῆς οἰστροδονήτου κόρης τῆς Ἰναχείης, ἣ Διὸς θάλπει κέαρ καὶ (v. 705) οὔτ´ Ἰνάχ…