Ἑλλήσποντος

Ἑλλήσποντος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

region

Ἑλλήσποντος, ἡ χώρα ἡ παρακειμένη τῷ κόλπῳ, ἀπὸ Ἕλλης. οἱ οἰκήτορες Ἑλλησπόντιοι καὶ Ἑλλησποντία καὶ Ἑλλησποντίς. ἔστι δ´ ἀπὸ δύο παρηγμένον, ὡς παρ´ ὠκεανὸν παρωκεανῖτις, παρὰ ποταμῷ παραποτάμιος.

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Text Details

Entry	#65
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 268.13 · Billerbeck Ε65
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-08
Word count	28

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἑλλήσποντος	Hellespont · place · corrected · Q6514
Ἕλλη	Helle (eponym) · person
Ἑλλησποντίοι	Hellespontians (inhabitants of the Hellespont) · people
Ἑλλησποντία	Hellespont (variant name) · place
Ἑλλησποντίς	Hellespont (variant name) · place
Ἑλλήσποντος	place · explicit · wikidata: Q6514 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	from (the person/place) Hellē
Morphological Composition	the inhabitants called Hellespontioi and Hellespontia and Hellespontis (forms derived from the name)
Morphological Composition	also from two oikonyms/adjuncts: 'parōkeanītis' meaning 'near the ocean' and 'parapotamios' meaning 'near the river' (formation from παρα- + ὠκεανός/ποταμός)

Links

Place links	Dardanelles \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_173.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

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Translation Guidance

Herodian overlaps