Εὐδείπνη - Stephanos Ethnika

Εὐδείπνη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

island

Εὐδείπνη, νῆσος Λιβυφοινίκων, Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Λιβύης. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Εὐδειπναῖος ὡς Λερναῖος.

Eudeipne: an island of the Libyphoenicians, Hekataios in the Periegesis of Libya. The ethnonym Eudeipnaios as 'Lernaios'.

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	#151
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 284.12
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-09
Word count	11

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Περιηγήσει Λιβύης · FGrHist 1 F 339

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Εὐδείπνη	Eudeipne · place
Λιβυφοινίκες	Libyphoenicians · people
Λιβύη	Libya · place · corrected · Q2370577
Εὐδειπναῖος	Eudeipnaios (ethnic name) · people
Λερναῖος	Lernaean · other

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Place Transfer	an island of the Libyphoenicians / island of Libyphoenicians
Morphological Composition	the ethnicon 'Eudeipnaiós', formed like 'Lernaíos' (i.e. formation of the demonym)

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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 (nominative AUTHOR NAME)... + ὡς αὐτός formula:4caae33810f40dfa	Translate as "X... as per X." Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (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
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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	ὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:7163e35f4bd326d9	Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 1.327

char LCS 49 (62.0%) · word LCS 6 (54.5%)

Stephanos

Εὐδείπνη, νῆσος Λιβυφοινίκων, Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Λιβύης. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Εὐδειπναῖος ὡς Λερναῖος.

Herodian

ἐπὶ τοῦ πλοίου, βαρύνομεν ὡς λευκή καὶ λεύκη. ἀντιπίπτει δὲ τὸ στρωμνή. * Ὡσαύτως καὶ τὰ ὑπερδισύλλαβα βαρύνεται, Πολίχνη Κρήτης πόλις. ἔστι καὶ Πολίχνα πόλις Τρῳάδος. Εὐδείπνη νῆσος Λιβυφοινίκων. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Λιβύης. Θεράπναι πόλις Λακωνική, ἥν τινες Σπάρτην φασίν, ἔστι δὲ τόπος ἔχων ναὸν τῶν Διοσκούρων διὰ τὸ ἐκεῖ τούτους τιμᾶσθαι. θεραπεύειν γὰρ τιμᾶν σημαίνει καὶ ὁ ναὸς τὴν οἰκίαν, ἔνθα θεοὶ θεραπεύονται. Καλύδναι νῆσοι, Ἀφίδναι…