Ζυγοί - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ζυγοί, πρὸς τῷ τῆς Ἀσίας Βοσπόρῳ, Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. τούτων ἔοικε καὶ ἡ Ζυγόπολις παρὰ Τραπεζοῦντα, Στράβων δωδεκάτῃ. τοῦ Ζυγοί τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ζυγιανός.

Zygoi: a people near the Bosporos of Asia. Strabo, book 11. Zygopolis near Trapezous also seems to belong to them. Strabo, book 12. The ethnonym from 'Zygoi' is 'Zygianos'.

AI translation — gpt-5.6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#31
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 298.3
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-10
Word count	22
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	(11,2,1 [C 492,26]); (12,3,17 [C 548,24])

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ζυγοί	Zygoi (the Zygi) · people · corrected · Q1980137
Ἀσία	Asia · place
Βόσπορος	Bosporus · place · corrected · Q187890
Ζυγόπολις	Zygopolis · place
Τραπεζοῦντα	Trapezounta (Trebizond) · place
Ζυγιανός	Zygianos (ethnic/demonym) · other

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	The ethnicon (demonym) of the Zygoi is Zygianos.

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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 · 2 occurrences
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + παρά + τό + Y (ETYMON) formula:e1b19e84652cc7be	Translate as "X is deriving/derives from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X... + πρός + Y (dative) formula:1a524ea80fe79519	Translate as "X... near 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 1.93

char LCS 39 (32.5%) · word LCS 5 (22.7%)

Stephanos

Ζυγοί, πρὸς τῷ τῆς Ἀσίας Βοσπόρῳ, Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. τούτων ἔοικε καὶ ἡ Ζυγόπολις παρὰ Τραπεζοῦντα, Στράβων δωδεκάτῃ. τοῦ Ζυγοί τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ζυγιανός.

Herodian

…ὰν δοῦλος εἰς τὴν πόλιν ταύτην λίθον προσενέγκῃ, ἐλεύθερος γίνεται κἂν ξένος ᾖ». Ἑλληνόπολις πόλις Βιθυνίας. Ἀπολλόδωρος «Ἄτταλος ἐκ τῶν Ἑλληνίδων πόλεων οἰκήτορας συναγαγὼν ἔκτισε πόλιν καὶ ὠνόμασεν αὐτὴν Ἑλληνόπολιν». Ζυγόπολις παρὰ Τραπεζοῦντα. Στράβων δωδεκάτῃ. Ἡλιούπολις, πόλις Αἰγύπτου, ἣν ἔκτισεν Ἀκτὶς ὁ Ἡλίου καὶ Ῥόδης. Ἡρόδοτος δευτέρᾳ (c. 3). ἔστι καὶ Θρᾴκης. καὶ τῆς Ἀρωματοφόρου ἄποικος τῆς Αἰγυπτίας. καὶ δʹ ἐν Σάρδεσι. καὶ ἡ Κόρινθος Ἡλιούπολις ἐλέγετο· ἔστι καὶ ἐν Φο…

Herodian 1.140

char LCS 21 (17.5%) · word LCS 5 (22.7%)

Stephanos

Ζυγοί, πρὸς τῷ τῆς Ἀσίας Βοσπόρῳ, Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. τούτων ἔοικε καὶ ἡ Ζυγόπολις παρὰ Τραπεζοῦντα, Στράβων δωδεκάτῃ. τοῦ Ζυγοί τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ζυγιανός.

Herodian

…ο ἀρχῆς» τὸ τοῦ τραγικοῦ καὶ τοῦτο δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς κυβερνητικῆς μετενήνεκται καταστάσεως. καὶ τὸ ζυγομαχεῖν ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν πλοίοις ζυγῶν δύναται εἶναι, ὅτε περὶ τὰς καθέδρας διαφέρονται ἐρέσσοντες οἱ ἐρέται. εἰσὶ καὶ Ζυγοί πόλις πρὸς τῷ τῆς Ἀσίας Βοσπόρῳ. Τὰ εἰς 'γος' δισύλλαβα φύσει μακρᾷ παραληγόμενα ὀξύνεται, εἰ μὴ κύρια εἴη, λοιγός, φηγός, πηγός. τὸ δὲ Λᾶγος κύριον. εἴρηται καὶ τρισυλλάβως «Λάαγος φίλος υἱὸς ἀρίζηλος Πτολεμαῖος». οὐ φύσει οὖν δισυλλαβεῖ, ἀλλ´ ἐκ τοῦ…