Ἔρθα

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

All Letters / Ε Epsilon / Ἔρθα
Ἔρθα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
city
Ἔρθα, πόλις Παρθίας ἐπὶ τῷ Εὐφράτῃ, ὡς Γλαῦκος ἐν Ἀραβικῶν δευτέρῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἐρθηνός.

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Text Details

Entry#111
Greek textmeineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source idMeineke 276.14
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-08
Word count14

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Γλαῦκος (Glaucus)Ἀραβικῶν β · FGrHist 674 F 3
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ἜρθαErtha · place
ΠαρθίαParthia · place · corrected · Q1645483
ΕὐφράτηςEuphrates · place · corrected · Q34589
ἘρθηνόςErthenos (ethnic) · other
Ἔρθαplace · explicit · wikidata: Q1362466 · seeded_headword_alignment
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Unclear Metalinguistic"Ertha: a city of Parthia on the Euphrates, according to Glaukos in his Arabika. The ethnicon (demonym) is Erthenos."

Links

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Translation Guidance

KindRuleGuidanceDetection
FormulaX (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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
FormulaX (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH)
formula:1bb0974b95264dde
Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'"
Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
FormulaX (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
FormulaX (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
Formulaτὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM)
formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3
Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'"
Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.253
char LCS 54 (77.1%) · word LCS 11 (78.6%)
Stephanos
Ἔρθα, πόλις Παρθίας ἐπὶ τῷ Εὐφράτῃ, ὡς Γλαῦκος ἐν Ἀραβικῶν δευτέρῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἐρθηνός.
Herodian
…Μύνδου καὶ Κῶ, ὡς Ἑκαταῖος. ἔστι δὲ καὶ οὐδέτερον. Ἴλερδα πόλις πρὸς τῇ Πυρήνῃ Ἰβηρίας. καὶ Ἀνδρομέδα Δώριον τροπῇ τοῦ 'η' εἰς 'α' πεποιημένον παροξυνόμενον. Τὰ εἰς 'θα' ἔχοντα τὸ 'α' βραχὺ βαρύνεται, μίνθα τὸ ἡδύοσμον, Ἔρθα πόλις Παρθίας ἐπὶ τῷ Εὐφράτῃ, ὡς Γλαῦκος ἐν Ἀραβικῶν δευτέρῳ. ἄκανθα, κολόκυνθα ἡ Ἀττικῶς κολοκύντη. Λύκαιθα πόλις Ἀρκαδίας παρὰ Μενελάῳ, ἣν Θεόπομπος Λύκαιάν φησι. Κύπαιθα πόλις Λιβύης, Κύναιθα πόλις Ἀρκαδίας· ἔστι καὶ Κύναιθα πόλις Ἰθάκης ὑπὸ τῷ Νηρίτῳ ὄρει. Σύμαιθα πόλις Θεττα…

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