Εὐφρατίς

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

Εὐφρατίς OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
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Entry #176
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 288.7 | Billerbeck: Ε176
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-09
Word count: 21
Entities: Εὐφράτης (Euphrates) [place], Συρία (Syria) [place], Ἄραξ (Araxes) [place], Ἀρμενία (Armenia) [place], Εὐφρατίτης (Euphratite (ethnic name)) [people], Προσωπίτης (Prosopite / Prosopitis (ethnic name)) [people]
Etymologies: Place Transfer: (The region) Syria, from the nearby river.; Folk Etymology Narrative: It and the Araxes were said to be brothers, flowing from the mountain of Armenia.; Morphological Composition: The ethnicon Εὐφρατίτης (Euphratites), analogous to Προσωπίτης (Prosopitis).
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Εὐφρατίς, ἡ Συρία, ἀπὸ τοῦ παρακειμένου ποταμοῦ. ἐλέγοντο αὐτὸς καὶ Ἀράξης ἀδελφοί, ῥέοντες ἐξ ὄρους Ἀρμενίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Εὐφρατίτης ὡς Προσωπίτης.
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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.