Ἐρεμβοί - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἐρεμβοί OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Ἐρεμβοί, ἔθνος Ἀράβων. Ὅμηρος “καὶ Σιδονίους καὶ Ἐρεμβούς”. τούτους δέ φησι τοὺς Τρωγλοδύτας, ἀπὸ τοῦ εἰς τὴν ἔραν βαίνειν. λέγονται καὶ Ἐρεμβαῖοι καὶ θηλυκὸν Ἐρεμβίς.

Eremboi: a people of the Arabs. Homer: "and Sidonians and Eremboi". He calls these the Troglodytes, from going into the earth. They are also called Erembaioi and feminine Erembis.

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	#106
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 275.13
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-08
Word count	26

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ὅμηρος (Homer)	(δ 84)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἐρεμβοί	Eremboi (ethnic name) · people · corrected · Q122827899
Ἄραβες	Arabs · people
Σιδόνιοι	Sidonians · people
Ἐρεμβοί	Eremboi (accusative plural) · people · corrected · Q122827899
Τρωγλοδύται	Troglodytes / Troglodytae · people · corrected · Q38109
Ἐρεμβαῖοι	Erembaioi (variant ethnonym) · people
Ἐρεμβίς	Erembis (feminine form) · people
Ἐρεμβοί	place · explicit · wikidata: Q122827899 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Folk Etymology Narrative	But he says that these are the Troglodytes, from their going into the 'ēran' (i.e. from their going into the spring/season).

Links

Place links	Eremboi
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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 (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 (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	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 1.139

char LCS 37 (27.4%) · word LCS 8 (32.0%)

Stephanos

Ἐρεμβοί, ἔθνος Ἀράβων. Ὅμηρος “καὶ Σιδονίους καὶ Ἐρεμβούς”. τούτους δέ φησι τοὺς Τρωγλοδύτας, ἀπὸ τοῦ εἰς τὴν ἔραν βαίνειν. λέγονται καὶ Ἐρεμβαῖοι καὶ θηλυκὸν Ἐρεμβίς.

Herodian

…ποθανόντος αὐτόθι». Τὰ εἰς 'βος' ἐπιθετικὰ ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβάς, εἰ μὴ τὸ 'η' παραλήγοι ἢ σύνθετα εἴη ἀπὸ τῶν εἰς 'βος' ληγόντων, ὀξύνεται, ἐρεμβός καὶ Ἐρεμβοί ἔθνος Ἀραβίας. Ὅμηρος «καὶ Σιδονίους καὶ Ἐρεμβούς» (Od. δ 84), τούτους δέ φησι τοὺς Τρωγλοδύτας ἀπὸ τοῦ εἰς ἔραν βαίνειν. λέγονται καὶ Ἐρεμβαῖοι. τούτῳ δὲ ὁμοίως καὶ Περραιβός ἐθνικόν, οὗ θηλυκὸν κατὰ κοινότητα ἡ Περραιβός καὶ Περραιβή. κολοβός, βουφορβός, ἱπποφορβός. τὸ δὲ ἔφηβος, ἄνηβος παραλήγουσι τῷ 'η'. τὸ δὲ φιλόκυβος σ…