Ἡλιούπολις - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ἡλιούπολις, πόλις Αἰγύπτου, ἣν ἔκτισεν Ἀκτὶς ὁ Ἡλίου [καὶ] Ῥόδης. Ἡρόδοτος δευτέρᾳ. ἔστι καὶ Θρᾴκης. καὶ τῆς Ἀρωματοφόρου, ἀπὸ τῆς Αἰγυπτίας. καὶ δʹ ἐν Σάρδεσι. καὶ ἡ Κόρινθος Ἡλιούπολις ἐλέγετο, εἶτα Πάγος, καὶ οὕτως Ἐφύρη. ἔστι καὶ ἐν Φοινίκῃ. ὁ πολίτης Ἡλιοπολίτης.

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Text Details

Entry	#9
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 300.17
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-10
Word count	45

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἡρόδοτος (Herodotus)	β (2,3,1)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἡλιού πόλις	Heliopolis (city of Helios) · place · corrected · Q191687
Αἴγυπτος	Egypt · place · corrected · Q11768
Ἀκτίς	Actis · person
Ἥλιος	Helios · deity
Ῥόδη/Ῥόδος	Rhodos (Rhodes) · place · corrected · Q4395887
Θρᾴκη	Thrace/Thracians · people · corrected · Q41741
Σάρδεις	Sardis · place
Κόρινθος	Corinth · place · corrected · Q1363688
Πάγος	Pagos (the hill) · place
Ἐφύρη	Ephyra · place
Φοινίκη	Phoenicia · place · corrected · Q41642
Ἡλιοπολίτης	Heliopolite (citizen of Heliopolis) · people
Heliopolis in Egypt	place · city · Egypt · explicit · unresolved
Heliopolis in Thrace	place · city · Thrace · implicit · unresolved
Heliopolis of the Aromatophoroi	place · city · Aromatophoros / Aromatophoroi · implicit · unresolved
Heliopolis in Sardis	place · district or quarter · Sardis · implicit · unresolved
Corinth called Heliopolis	place · city · Corinthia / Greece · explicit · unresolved
Heliopolis in Phoenicia	place · city · Phoenicia · implicit · unresolved

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	'Heliopolis' — literally 'city of Helios' (city named for the god Helios)
Eponym Person	a city of Egypt, which Actis (son of Helios, and Rhode) founded
Place Transfer	and (called) Aromatophoros, from the Egyptian (i.e. deriving the name from the Egyptian / from Egypt)
Unclear Metalinguistic	and Corinth was called 'Heliopolis', then 'Pagos', and thus 'Ephyra' (statement of former names)
Morphological Composition	the citizen (of Heliopolis) is called 'Heliopolites' (demonym)

Links

Place links	Heliopolis \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_243.jpg
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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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative BOOK NAME) formula:c795eaabedf9a542	*Translate as "Χ, in his Y"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 6 occurrences
Formula	καί + X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + Y (nominative PROPER NOUN) formula:0af867b3dd6df580	Translate as "Y is also 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	καλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται/ἐκλήθη (ἀπο...) gloss:ef7a95cd709173ed	is/used to be/is/was called/named after (+ ἀπο) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	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 100 (47.4%) · word LCS 18 (42.9%)

Stephanos

Ἡλιούπολις, πόλις Αἰγύπτου, ἣν ἔκτισεν Ἀκτὶς ὁ Ἡλίου [καὶ] Ῥόδης. Ἡρόδοτος δευτέρᾳ. ἔστι καὶ Θρᾴκης. καὶ τῆς Ἀρωματοφόρου, ἀπὸ τῆς Αἰγυπτίας. καὶ δʹ ἐν Σάρδεσι. καὶ ἡ Κόρινθος Ἡλιούπολις ἐλέγετο, εἶτα Πάγος, καὶ οὕτως Ἐφύρη. ἔστι καὶ ἐν Φοινίκῃ. ὁ πολίτης Ἡλιοπολίτης.

Herodian

…ῃ, 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 Φοινίκῃ. Θεόπολις ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ. Κνωπούπολις· οὕτως ἐκαλεῖτο Ἐρυθραί πόλις Ἰώνων ἀπὸ Κνώπου. Καρόπολις πόλις Καρίας. Ἀλέξανδρος Καρικῶν π…