Ἡρώ - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἡρώ OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Ἡρώ, πόλις Αἰγυπτία, ἣ Αἷμος ἐκλήθη διὰ τὸ τὸν Τυφῶνα ἐνταῦθα κεραυνῷ βληθῆναι καὶ αἷμα ῥυῆναι. Στράβων δὲ Ἡρώων πόλιν αὐτὴν καλεῖ. ὁ πολίτης ταύτης Ἡρωοπολίτης, τῆς δὲ πρώτης Ἡρῷος ὡς Κῷος.

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Text Details

Entry	#24
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 304.11
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-10
Word count	32

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	2,1,33 [C 85,30]

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἡρώ	Herō / Herô (place name) · place · corrected · Q131795
Αἰγυπτία	Aigyptia (city name) · place · corrected · Q11768
Αἷμος	Haemus (mountain) · place
Τυφῶν	Typhon · deity
Ἡρωοπολίτης	Heroopolitan (citizen of Heropolis) · people
Ἡρωῖος	Hērōios / Heroios · person
Κῶος	Koan (of Kos) · people
Ἡρώ	place · explicit · wikidata: Q1630019 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Folk Etymology Narrative	It was called Haîmos because Typhon was struck there by a thunderbolt and blood flowed.
Morphological Composition	Strabo calls it 'the city of the heroes'.
Morphological Composition	The citizen of this (city) is called Herōopolitēs.
Unclear Metalinguistic	And the demonym of the first is 'Hēroios', like 'Koios'.

Links

Place links	Pithom \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_253.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in '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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (definite ARTICLE + ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:bcd70ae781e7b205	Translate as "just as 'Y' is from the name X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · medium confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:7163e35f4bd326d9	Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES 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 · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.347

char LCS 29 (19.0%) · word LCS 6 (18.8%)

Stephanos

Ἡρώ, πόλις Αἰγυπτία, ἣ Αἷμος ἐκλήθη διὰ τὸ τὸν Τυφῶνα ἐνταῦθα κεραυνῷ βληθῆναι καὶ αἷμα ῥυῆναι. Στράβων δὲ Ἡρώων πόλιν αὐτὴν καλεῖ. ὁ πολίτης ταύτης Ἡρωοπολίτης, τῆς δὲ πρώτης Ἡρῷος ὡς Κῷος.

Herodian

… ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ καὶ Βοῦτος. Δωδώ· οὕτως ἐλέγετο Δωδώνη Σιμμίας ὁ Ῥόδιος »Ζηνὸς ἕδος Κρονίδαο μάκαιρ´ ὑπεδέξατο Δωδώ«. Ἐλβώ νῆσος. Ἡρόδοτος δευτέρᾳ (c. 140). Ἀμαζώ θυγάτηρ τῆς Ἐφέσου, ἀφ´ ἧς αἱ Ἀμαζόνες. Ἡρώ πόλις Αἰγυπτία. Στράβων δὲ Ἡρώων πόλιν αὐτὴν καλεῖ. Θριώ· οὕτως λέγεται Θρῖα δῆμος τῆς Οἰνηΐδος φυλῆς, ὅθεν Θριῶθεν Θριῶζε. Ἰώ ἤτοι σελήνη·