Ἐλεφαντίνη - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἐλεφαντίνη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Ἐλεφαντίνη, πόλις Αἰγύπτου.] Παρθένιος δὲ Ἐλεφαντίδα αὐτήν φησιν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν τῆς μὲν προτέρας Ἐλεφαντινίτης, τῆς δ´ Ἐλεφαντίδος Ἐλεφαντίτης.

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Text Details

Entry	#53
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 266.13 · Billerbeck Ε53
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-08
Word count	17

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Παρθένιος (Parthenios (author))	fr. 44 Lightfoot = SH 656

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἐλεφαντίνη	Elephantine (island/city) · place
Ἐλεφαντίδα	Elephantine (variant form) · place
Ἐλεφαντίνος	Elephantine (demonym, inhabitant) · people
Ἐλεφαντίδα	Elephantine (genitive form of the place name) · place
Ἐλεφαντίτης	Elephantinite (demonym, inhabitant) · people

Links

Place links	Elephantine \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_169.jpg
Review	Open review page

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.333

char LCS 54 (46.6%) · word LCS 8 (44.4%)

Stephanos

Ἐλεφαντίνη, πόλις Αἰγύπτου.] Παρθένιος δὲ Ἐλεφαντίδα αὐτήν φησιν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν τῆς μὲν προτέρας Ἐλεφαντινίτης, τῆς δ´ Ἐλεφαντίδος Ἐλεφαντίτης.

Herodian

…Δήλιος τὸν Νάξιόν φησιν, ἐπειδὴ Νάξου ποταμὸς Βίβλος. Βολβιτίνη πόλις Αἰγύπτου. Ἑκαταῖος. Βολίνη πόλις Ἀχαΐας, ὡς Ῥιανὸς ἐν Ἀχαϊκῶν δευτέρῳ. Βουλίνη πόλις περὶ Ἰλλυρίαν, ὥς φησιν Ἀρτεμίδωρος, ἀφ´ ἧς τὸ ἐθνικὸν Βουλῖνοι. Ἐλεφαντίνη πόλις Αἰγύπτου. Παρθένιος δὲ Ἐλεφαντίδα αὐτήν φησιν. Ἐχῖναι νῆσοι περὶ τὴν Αἰτωλίαν, αἷς Ἀχελῷος