Ἐλεφαντίνη - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἐλεφαντίνη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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

Elephantine: a city in Egypt. Parthenios calls it 'Elephantis'. The ethnonym from the former is 'Elephantinites', and from 'Elephantis', 'Elephantites'.

AI translation — gpt-6.1-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#53
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 266.13
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-08
Word count	17
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-6.1-sol

Cited Authors

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

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἐλεφαντίνη	Elephantine (island/city) · place · corrected · Q284009
Ἐλεφαντίδα	Elephantine (variant form) · place
Ἐλεφαντίνος	Elephantine (demonym, inhabitant) · people
Ἐλεφαντίδα	Elephantine (genitive form of the place name) · place
Ἐλεφαντίτης	Elephantinite (demonym, inhabitant) · people
Ἐλεφαντίνη	place · explicit · wikidata: Q284009 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Elephantine \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_169.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 · 3 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
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 1.333

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