Ἐλυμαία - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἐλυμαία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

region

Ἐλυμαία, χώρα Ἀσσυρίων πρὸς τῇ Περσικῇ, τῆς Σουσίδος ἐγγύς. οἱ οἰκοῦντες Ἐλυμαῖοι.

Elymaia: a land of the Assyrians by the Persian, near Sousis. The inhabitants Elymaioi.

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	#73
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 269.17
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-08
Word count	12

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἐλυμαία	Elymaea (region) · place · corrected · Q1275158
Ἀσσύριοι	Assyrians · people
Περσία	Persia (the Persian region) · place · corrected · Q3746183
Σοῦσα	Susa · place
Ἐλυμαῖοι	Elymaeans · people
Ἐλυμαία	place · explicit · wikidata: Q1275158 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Elymais \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_175.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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 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
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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.282

char LCS 48 (71.6%) · word LCS 9 (75.0%)

Stephanos

Ἐλυμαία, χώρα Ἀσσυρίων πρὸς τῇ Περσικῇ, τῆς Σουσίδος ἐγγύς. οἱ οἰκοῦντες Ἐλυμαῖοι.

Herodian

…ἰολική, Περγαμηνῶν ἐπίνειον ἣ Κυδαινίς ὠνομάζετο, Μενεσθέως κτίσμα. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Φοινίκης Ἐλαία μεταξὺ Τύρου καὶ Σιδῶνος, ὡς Φίλων. καὶ Ἐλαία Βιθυνίας ἐπίνειον πλησίον Μυσίας. ἔστι καὶ λιμὴν Αἰθιοπίας καὶ νῆσοι τρεῖς. Ἐλυμαία χώρα Ἀσσυρίων πρὸς τῇ Περσικῇ τῆς Σουσίδος ἐγγύς. Ἐορδαία δύο χῶραι, Μυγδονίας καὶ Μακεδονίας· εἰσὶ δὲ ἄλλαι δύο, ἡ μὲν Ἰβηρίας, ἡ δὲ Θρᾴκης ἀπὸ Ἐορδοῦ τινος. Ἡλιαία δικαστήριον