Ἐπιπολαί - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ἐπιπολαί, χωρίον ἀπόκρημνον προσεχὲς Συρακούσαις. Θουκυδίδης ἕκτῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἐπιπολαῖος τῷ κοινῷ τύπῳ.

Epipolai: a precipitous place adjoining Syracuse. Thucydides in the sixth. The ethnonym Epipolaios by the common type.

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	#96
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 274.13
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-08
Word count	13

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Θουκυδίδης (Thucydides)	(6,96,1–2)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἐπιπολαί	Epipolae · place · corrected · Q3589176
Συρακοῦσαι	Syracuse · place
Ἐπιπολαῖος	Epipolian (demonym) · people
Ἐπιπολαί	place · place · explicit · wikidata: Q3589176 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Epipoli \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_183.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:5e7f1861601f28d1	*Translate as "X, book Y in his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS 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 · 2 scan rows · 2 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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	προσεχής -ες (+ dative) gloss:3d5be602ab263899	bordering, adjoining Domain: MEASUREMENT & SPACE Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.323

char LCS 57 (65.5%) · word LCS 7 (53.8%)

Stephanos

Ἐπιπολαί, χωρίον ἀπόκρημνον προσεχὲς Συρακούσαις. Θουκυδίδης ἕκτῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἐπιπολαῖος τῷ κοινῷ τύπῳ.

Herodian

…νεται, εἰ μὴ σύνθετα εἴη ἐκ προθέσεως, ἀσβόλη, θερσόλη, τριβόλη, ἀπαιόλη ἡ ἀπάτη. Ἰόλη, Ὁμόλη ὄρος Θετταλίας. Παυσανίας ἐνάτῳ (c. 8, 6). λέγεται καὶ Ὅμολος. Νακόλη νύμφη, ἀφ´ ἧς Νακόλαιον. τὸ δὲ ἐντολή, ἀνατολή, ἐμβολή, Ἐπιπολαί χωρίον ἀπόκρημνον προσεχὲς Συρακούσαις. Θουκυδίδης ἕκτῃ (c. 96). Προπολαί πόλις Σικελίας καὶ τἆλλα ἐκ προθέσεως ὀξύνονται. Τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'υλη' ὑπερδισύλλαβα βαρύνονται· κορδύλη, κοτύλη, γογγύλη, κρωβύλη, ἀρβύλη, ἡδύλη, Κροκύλη, Βραχύλη πόλις Κερήτων. Βαβύλη πόλις ἐν Ὀδρύσαις. Κ…