Ἐλλοπία - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἐλλοπία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Ἐλλοπία, χωρίον Εὐβοίας, καὶ αὐτὴ ἡ νῆσος, ἀπὸ Ἔλλοπος τοῦ Ἴωνος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἐλλοπιεύς. ἐλέγετο καὶ ἡ περὶ Δωδώνην χώρα Ἐλλοπία, ἧς οἱ οἰκήτορες Ἑλλοί καὶ Σελλοί. Ὅμηρος “ἀμφὶ δὲ Σελλοί”. ἔστι καὶ πόλις περὶ Δολοπίαν, καὶ χώρα περὶ Θεσπιάς.

Ellopos, Ellopya, Elopia">Ellopia: a place of Euboia, and the island itself, from Ellops the son of Ion. The ethnonym Ellopieus. The land around Dodone was also called Ellopia, whose inhabitants are Helloi and Selloi. Homer: "and around the Selloi". There is also a city around Dolopia, and a region around Thespiai.

External translation supplied by Brady Kiesling; reported Claude Fable 5.5 translation. Credit: Brady Kiesling and the Stephanos project (Greg Baker, Gabriel Jower, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling). Not individually verified; exact Greek input not supplied.

Text Details

Entry	#66
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 268.17
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-08
Word count	41

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ὅμηρος (Homer)	(Π 234)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἐλλοπία	Ellopia · place · corrected · Q131573400
Ἔλλοπος	Ellopos · person
Ἴων	Ion · person
Εὐβοία	Euboea · place · corrected · Q173096
Ἐλλοπιεύς	Ellopieus (ethnic name) · people
Ἕλλοι	Elloi · people
Σέλλοι	Selloi · people
Δωδώνη	Dodona · place · corrected · Q382317
Δολόπια	Dolopia · place
Θεσπίαι	Thespiae · place · corrected · Q1141295
Ellopia in Euboea	place · district/region · Euboea · explicit · wikidata: Q16561475 · candidate
Ellopia near Dodona	place · district/region · near Dodona (Epirus) · explicit · unresolved
Ellopia near Dolopia	place · city · near Dolopia · implicit · unresolved
Ellopia near Thespiae	place · district/region · near Thespiae (Boeotia) · implicit · unresolved

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	and the island itself (Euboea) is (named) from Ellopos, son of Ion.
Unclear Metalinguistic	the ethnic/demonym is 'Ellopieus'.
Eponym Person	Also the region around Dodona was called Ellopia, whose inhabitants were the Helloi and the Selloi (Homer: 'and around were the Selloi').

Links

Place links	Ellopia \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_173.jpg
Review	Open review page

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 PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form '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 · 2 scan rows · 3 occurrences
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	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
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	χωρίον τό gloss:619c2907ea980b25	locality; point (only in μέσα χωρία: ‘halfway point’) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.