Ἐπιτάλιον - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἐπιτάλιον OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Ἐπιτάλιον, πόλις τῆς Τριφυλίας, Πολύβιος τετάρτῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἐπιταλιεύς.

Epitalion: a city of Triphylia, Polybios in the fourth. The ethnonym Epitalieus.

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	#97
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 274.15
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-08
Word count	9

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Πολύβιος (Polybius)	(4,80,13)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἐπιτάλιον	Epitalion (city) · place · corrected · Q16562607
Τριφυλία	Triphylia · place · corrected · Q472032
Ἐπιταλιεύς	Epitalean (inhabitant of Epitalion) · people
Ἐπιτάλιον	place · explicit · wikidata: Q16562607 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Epitalion \| 📍 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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative BOOK NAME) formula:c795eaabedf9a542	*Translate as "Χ, in his Y"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · medium 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 · 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
Formula	Χ (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:c22408ee90fd1a1e	*Translate as "X, in book Y of his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · low confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	γένος τό gloss:c746b76469e4485d	descent Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people 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 1.362

char LCS 41 (68.3%) · word LCS 6 (66.7%)

Stephanos

Ἐπιτάλιον, πόλις τῆς Τριφυλίας, Πολύβιος τετάρτῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἐπιταλιεύς.

Herodian

…σμα λέγοντες. ὠνομάσθη δὲ ἀπὸ Βαργύλου, ὃς πληγεὶς ὑπὸ Πηγάσου τελευτᾷ, Βελλεροφόντης δ´ ἀνιαθεὶς ἐπὶ τῷ ἑταίρῳ ἔκτισε Βαργύλια. Ἰδάλιον πόλις Κύπρου. Ὀμφάλιον τόπος Κρήτης πλησίον Θενῶν καὶ Κνωσσοῦ. ἔστι καὶ Θετταλίας. Ἐπιτάλιον πόλις τῆς Τριφυλίας. Πολύβιος τετάρτῃ. Ἀμφιμάλιον πόλις Κρήτης ἀπὸ Ἀμφιμάλου. λέγεται καὶ Ἀμφίμαλα. Σανδάλιον Πισιδίας χωρίον. Ταυροπόλιον ἐν Ἰκαρίᾳ νήσῳ παρακειμένῃ τῇ Σάμῳ Ἀρτέμιδος ἱερόν. Στράβων ιδʹ. Διοβούλιον πολίχνιον πλησίον τοῦ Πόντου. Δασκύλιον πό…