Καβελλιών - Stephanos Ethnika

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Καβελλιών, πόλις Μασσαλίας. Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἐν πρώτῃ γεωγραφουμένων. τὸ ἐθνικὸν κατὰ τὸν ἐπιχώριον τύπον Καβελλιωνήσιος ὡς Ταρρακωνήσιος, κατὰ δὲ τὸν Ἑλληνικὸν Καβελλιωνίτης ὡς Ταρρακωνίτης.

Kabellion: a Massalian city. Artemidoros in book 1 of his Geography. The ethnonym in the local form is 'Kabellionesios', but the Greek form is 'Kabellionites'.

Commentary (1)

The ethnonym in the local form is 'Kabellionesios' (as in 'Tarrakonesios'), but the Greek form is 'Kabellionites' (as in 'Tarrakonites').

Stephanos contrasts a local ethnonym with the regular Greek form, preserving the Greek -ios/-ites distinction.

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Text Details

Entry	#4
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 345.17 · Billerbeck Κ4
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-19
Word count	22

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀρτεμίδωρος (Artemidoros)	Γεωγραφουμένων · fr. 4 Stiehle

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Καβελλιῶν	Kabellion (Kabellion/Καβελλιῶν) · place
Μασσαλία	Massalia (Marseille) · place · corrected · Q2566850
Καβελλιωνήσιος	ethnic adjective from Kabellion (Kabellionesian) · people
Ταρρακωνήσιος	ethnic adjective from Tarraco (Tarraconian) · people
Καβελλιωνίτης	ethnic noun from Kabellion (Kabellionite) · people
Ταρρακωνίτης	ethnic noun from Tarraco (Tarraconite) · people
Καβελλιών	place · explicit · pleiades: 148027 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	The ethnic, according to the epigraphic form Καβελλιωνῆς, is (written) as Ταρρακωνεύς.
Unclear Metalinguistic	But according to the Greek (form) Καβελλιονιστής it is (written) as Ταρρακωνίτης.

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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 · 1 occurrence
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 (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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 2 scan rows · 4 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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
Formula	Χ (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:c22408ee90fd1a1e	*Translate as "X, in book Y of his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
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 · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 4 occurrences
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 · 2 scan rows · 4 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐπιχώριος -α -ον (κατὰ τὸν ἐπιχώριον) gloss:a5a8d4938aac5b47	local (in the local form) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC Rule status: In progress	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 1.21

char LCS 55 (34.6%) · word LCS 7 (30.4%)

Stephanos

Καβελλιών, πόλις Μασσαλίας. Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἐν πρώτῃ γεωγραφουμένων. τὸ ἐθνικὸν κατὰ τὸν ἐπιχώριον τύπον Καβελλιωνήσιος ὡς Ταρρακωνήσιος, κατὰ δὲ τὸν Ἑλληνικὸν Καβελλιωνίτης ὡς Ταρρακωνίτης.

Herodian

…ία καὶ τὴν Ἥραν ἐνταῦθα ἀπὸ Κρήτης ἀφικομένους ὁρμισθῆναι καὶ τροπῇ τοῦ 'ο' εἰς 'ε', ὅθεν καὶ ἱερὸν Ἥρας παρθένου ἦν ἐν αὐτῇ· Μεδιών πόλις πρὸς τῇ Αἰτωλίᾳ· Πολύβιος ὀκτωκαιδεκάτῳ. Αὐενιών πόλις Μασσαλίας πρὸς τῷ Ῥοδανῷ, Καβελλιών πόλις Μασσαλίας. Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἐν πρώτῃ γεωγραφουμένων. Κορουιών πόλις Αἰκανῶν ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ. Διονύσιος ιʹ Ῥωμαϊκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας (c. 24). Ἰβιών πόλις ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ, μᾶλλον δὲ νῆσος. Τὰ εἰς 'ων' πατρωνυμικὰ καὶ ἐθνικὰ τῇ 'ει' διφθόγγῳ παραληγόμενα βαρύνεται, Ἀτρείων, Πηλείων, Ἀργεί…