Ζηράνιοι - Stephanos Ethnika

Ζηράνιοι OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

people

Ζηράνιοι, ἔθνος Θρᾴκης, Θεόπομπος εἰκοστῷ πέμπτῳ. καὶ Ζηρανία ἐπὶ τῆς χώρας, Ἔφορος εἰκοστῷ ἑβδόμῳ.

Zeranioi: a people of Thrace, Theopompos, book 25. Also 'Zerania' for the territory, Ephoros, book 27.

AI translation — gpt-5.6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#22
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 296.16
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-10
Word count	12
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Θεόπομπος (Theopompus)	FGrHist 115 F 214
Ἔφορος (Ephorus)	FGrHist 70 F 88

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ζηράνιοι	Zeranioi / the Zeranians · people · corrected · Q18418454
Θρᾴκη	Thrace · place · corrected · Q41741
Ζηρανία	Zerania · place

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	The Zeranioi: a people of Thrace.
Unclear Metalinguistic	and Zeranía as the name of the country/land.

Links

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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 · 2 occurrences
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 · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.117

char LCS 33 (40.7%) · word LCS 5 (35.7%)

Stephanos

Ζηράνιοι, ἔθνος Θρᾴκης, Θεόπομπος εἰκοστῷ πέμπτῳ. καὶ Ζηρανία ἐπὶ τῆς χώρας, Ἔφορος εἰκοστῷ ἑβδόμῳ.

Herodian

…Παρθένιον ὄνομα τοὺς προσχώρους θέσθαι ἐπὶ τῷ πάθει τῆς παρθένου. ἔστι καὶ ἀκρωτήριον πλησίον Ἡρακλείας, οὗ μέμνηται Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἐν ἕκτῳ γεωγραφουμένων. πυθμένιος, Λυκαόνιος, Μακεδόνιος, δαιμόνιος, Σαρπηδόνιος, Ζηράνιος ἔθνος Θρᾴκης. Θεόπομπος εἰκοστῷ πέμπτῳ. Ἀσκάνιος ποταμός. Εὐφορίων Χιλιάσι «καὶ Ψίλιν Ἀσκάνιόν τε Ναυαίθοιο». Βαρκάνιος ἔθνος τοῖς Ὑρκανοῖς ὅμορον. Τραυχένιος ἔθνος περὶ τὸν πόντον τὸν Εὔξεινον ὅμορον Σίνδοις. Τυρμένιος Σκυθικὸν ἔθνος ναυτικώτατον. ἑρμηνεύον…