Εὐπορία - Stephanos Ethnika

Εὐπορία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Εὐπορία, πόλις Μακεδονίας, ἣν Ἀλέξανδρος ταχέως νικήσας ἔκτισε καὶ ὠνόμασε διὰ τὸ εὔπορον. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Εὐποριεύς.

Euporia: a city of Macedonia, which Alexander, having won a swift victory, founded and named for the ease. The ethnonym Euporieus.

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	#163
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 286.12
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-09
Word count	16

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Εὐπορία	Euporia · place · corrected · Q8409
Μακεδονία	Macedonia · place · corrected · Q81734
Ἀλέξανδρος	Alexander · person
Εὐποριεύς	Euporieus (inhabitant of Euporia) · people
Εὐπορία	place · explicit · pleiades: 501414 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	"Alexander, having quickly conquered it, built it and named it because of the 'euporon' (i.e. because it was fertile / easily supplied / advantageous)."

Links

Place links	Euporie
Page scans	vol2_213.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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	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
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym 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 1.299

char LCS 53 (57.0%) · word LCS 10 (62.5%)

Stephanos

Εὐπορία, πόλις Μακεδονίας, ἣν Ἀλέξανδρος ταχέως νικήσας ἔκτισε καὶ ὠνόμασε διὰ τὸ εὔπορον. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Εὐποριεύς.

Herodian

ἣν Ἀλέξανδρος ταχέως νικήσας ἔκτισε καὶ ὠνόμασε διὰ τὸ εὔπορον. Θουρία πόλις Ἰταλίας, ἣ καὶ Θούριοι καὶ Θούριον. ἔστι δὲ καὶ Μεσσηνίας πόλις. Παυσανίας δὲ ( 4, 31, 1) Ἄνθειαν αὐτήν φησι. τινὲς δὲ Θουνίαν. Θυμιατηρία πόλις Λιβύης. Ἰκαρία δῆμος τῆς Αἰγηΐδος φυλῆς ἀπὸ Ἰκαρίου τοῦ πατρ…