Ἑσπερίς - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἑσπερίς OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Ἑσπερίς, πόλις Λιβύης, ἡ νῦν Βερενίκη· ὁ πολίτης Ἑσπερίτης. Καλλίμαχος ἐν τοῖς ἐπιγράμμασιν.

Hesperis: a city of Libya, now Berenike; the citizen Hesperites. Kallimachos in the Epigrams.

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	#141
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 282.16
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-09
Word count	13

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Καλλίμαχος (Callimachus)	Ἐπιγράμμασιν · fr. 37,6 Pfeiffer

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἑσπερίς	Hesperis · place · corrected · Q819047
Λιβύη	Libya · place · corrected · Q2370577
Βερενίκη	Berenike (Berenice) · place · corrected · Q819050
Ἑσπερίτης	Hesperite (citizen of Hesperis) · people
Ἑσπερίς	place · explicit · wikidata: Q819047 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	Hesperis: a city of Libya, now (called) Berenice. The citizen (demonym) is Hesperites. Callimachus in the Epigrams.

Links

Place links	Euesperides \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_203.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an '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 · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	καλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται/ἐκλήθη (ἀπο...) gloss:ef7a95cd709173ed	is/used to be/is/was called/named after (+ ἀπο) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	πολίτης ὁ gloss:1c7dda400d7265cb	citizen 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.

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.