Ἑρμώνασσα

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

All Letters / Ε Epsilon / Ἑρμώνασσα
Ἑρμώνασσα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
island
Ἑρμώνασσα, νῆσος μικρά, πόλιν ἔχουσα, ἐν τῷ Κιμμερίῳ Βοσπόρῳ, Ἰώνων ἄποικον, ὡς ὁ περιηγητής. ταύτην ὁ Σκύμνος καὶ Ἑρμώνειαν καλεῖ. Στράβων ἐν ἑβδόμῃ Ἑρμώνακτος κώμην φησί. Μένιππος δὲ χωρίον Τραπεζοῦντος ἐν περίπλῳ τῶν δύο πόντων. Ἑκαταῖος δὲ καὶ Θεόπομπος πόλιν αὐτήν φασιν. ἀπὸ Ἑρμωνάσσης τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἑρμωνασσαῖος ἢ Ἑρμωνάσσιος ὡς Συρακόσσιος.

Hermonassa: a small island having a city, in the Kimmerian Bosporos, a colony of Ionians, as the Periegete. Skymnos also calls it Hermoneia. Strabo in the seventh speaks of the village of Hermonax. Menippos a place of Trapezous in the Periplous of the Two Seas. Hekataios and Theopompos call it a city. From Hermonassa the ethnonym Hermonassaios or Hermonassios as 'Syrakossios'.

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#123
Greek textmeineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source idMeineke 278.10
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-08
Word count51

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Περιηγητής (the Periegete (Periegetes))(552–53)
Σκύμνος (Skymnos)fr. 4 Gisinger
Στράβων (Strabo)ζ̅ (7,3,16 [C 306,4])
Μένιππος (Menippus)Περίπλῳ τῶν δύο πόντων · 9r21 Diller = GGM 1,572 fr. 1
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)FGrHist 1 F 208
Θεόπομπος (Theopompus)FGrHist 115 F 370
Browse all cited authors and works

Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ἙρμώνασσαHermonassa · place · corrected · Q2995002
Κιμμερῖος ΒόσποροςCimmerian Bosporus · place
ἼωνεςIonians · people
ἙρμώνειαHermoneia (variant name) · place
ἙρμῶναξHermonax (name of a village) · place
ΤραπεζοῦςTrapezus (Trebizond) · place
ἙρμώνασσαHermonassa (gen.) · place · corrected · Q2995002
ἙρμωνασσαῖοςHermonassaean (ethnicon) · people
ἙρμωνάσσιοςHermonassian (ethnicon) · people
ΣυρακόσιοςSyracusan (ethnicon) · people
Hermonassa in the Cimmerian Bosporusplace · island · Cimmerian Bosporus · explicit · unresolved
Browse all people and deities

Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Unclear MetalinguisticSkymnos also calls this (island) ‘Hermoneia’.
Unclear MetalinguisticStrabo calls it the village ‘Hermonaktos’.
Morphological CompositionFrom (the name) Hermonassa comes the ethnicon Ἑρμωνασσαῖος or Ἑρμωνάσσιος (analogous to Συρακόσσιος).

Links

Place linksHermonassa | 📍 Map | Pleiades
Page scansvol2_193.jpg
ReviewOpen review page

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 (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
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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
Formulaκαί + X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + Y (nominative PROPER NOUN)
formula:0af867b3dd6df580
Translate as "Y is also 'X'"
Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES
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
FormulaΧ (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 · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formulaὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME)
formula:d915b1886270056c
Translate as "as per X"
Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
Glossἄποικος ὁ
gloss:f19d7fe719703a7b
settlement
Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Glossἐθνικόν τό
gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a
ethnonym
Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Glossκώμη ἡ
gloss:e14972622087326b
village
Domain: SETTLEMENTS/STRUCTURES
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Glossπερίπλους ὁ
gloss:45874e1d0f0f7fb7
sea voyage
Domain: MEASUREMENT & SPACE
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Browse all translation guidance rules

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.268
char LCS 90 (31.7%) · word LCS 17 (33.3%)
Stephanos
Ἑρμώνασσα, νῆσος μικρά, πόλιν ἔχουσα, ἐν τῷ Κιμμερίῳ Βοσπόρῳ, Ἰώνων ἄποικον, ὡς ὁ περιηγητής. ταύτην ὁ Σκύμνος καὶ Ἑρμώνειαν καλεῖ. Στράβων ἐν ἑβδόμῃ Ἑρμώνακτος κώμην φησί. Μένιππος δὲ χωρίον Τραπεζοῦντος ἐν περίπλῳ τῶν δύο πόντων. Ἑκαταῖος δὲ καὶ Θεόπομπος πόλιν αὐτήν φασιν. ἀπὸ Ἑρμωνάσσης τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἑρμωνασσαῖος ἢ Ἑρμωνάσσιος ὡς Συρακόσσιος.
Herodian
φησί. Μένιππος δὲ χωρίον Τραπεζοῦντος ἐν περίπλῳ τῶν δύο πόντων. Ἑκαταῖος δὲ καὶ Θεόπομπος πόλιν αὐτήν φασιν. μέτασσα παρὰ τὸ μετά »χωρὶς δὲ μέτασσαι« (Od. ι 221). Ἔδεσσα πόλις Συρίας ἀποικία τῆς ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ. Ποιήεσσα πόλις τῆς Κέω. Σύεσσα καλύβη τις ἐν Λυκίᾳ ἀπὸ Συέσσης γραός τινος ὑποδεξαμένης τὴν Λητὼ καὶ Σύεσσα πόλις Τυρρ…

Canonical URL: headword_17099.html

Last updated: 2026-10-10 09:35:26 UTC