Ζῆλος - Stephanos Ethnika

Ζῆλος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Ζῆλος, πόλις τῶν ἑσπερίων Αἰθιόπων, Στράβων ἑπτακαιδεκάτῃ. ὁ πολίτης Ζηλίτης.

Zelos: a city of the western Ethiopians. Strabo, book 17. A citizen is a 'Zelites'.

AI translation — gpt-5.6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#20
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 296.11
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-10
Word count	10
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	ιζ (17,3,6 [C 827,24])

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ζῆλος	Zelos · place · corrected · Q6095436
Αἰθίοπες	Aethiopians · people
Ζηλίτης	Zelite (citizen of Zelos) · people
Ζῆλος	place · explicit · wikidata: Q6095436 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Iulia Constantia Zilil \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_233.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 (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
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.

Herodian 1.155

char LCS 29 (45.3%) · word LCS 5 (50.0%)

Stephanos

Ζῆλος, πόλις τῶν ἑσπερίων Αἰθιόπων, Στράβων ἑπτακαιδεκάτῃ. ὁ πολίτης Ζηλίτης.

Herodian

…Δῆλος μία τῶν Κυκλάδων. ἢ παρὰ τὰς γονάς· ἱερὸν γὰρ Δῆλος τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος τοῦ θεοῦ πρῶτον ἐν αὐτῇ γενομένου. ἢ διὰ τὰς μαντείας· δηλοῦσα γὰρ τὰ δυσεύρετα. Σφῆλος ὄνομα κύριον. Τῆλος νῆσος τῶν Κυκλάδων ὁμοφώνως τῷ οἰκιστῇ. Ζῆλος πόλις τῶν ἑσπερίων Αἰθιόπων. Ἦλος κύριον. Ἔτι τὰ εἰς 'λος' δισύλλαβα προσηγορικὰ ἢ ἐπιθετικὰ τῷ 'η' παραληγόμενα, εἰ ἔχοι ἄφωνον πρὸ τοῦ 'η', ὀξύνεται, πηλός, βηλός ὁ οὐδός, χηλός, φηλός. τὸ μέντοι ἧλος καὶ ζῆλος βαρύνεται, οὐδὲ γὰρ ἄφωνον ἔχει. τ…