Θάψακος - Stephanos Ethnika

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Θάψακος, πόλις Συρίας πρὸς τῷ Εὐφράτῃ. Θεόπομπος ἐν Φιλιππικῶν τρίτῳ. ὁ πολίτης Θαψακηνός.

Thapsakos: a city in Syria near the Euphrates. Theopompos, in book 3 of his Philippika. A citizen is a 'Thapsakenos'.

AI translation — gpt-5.5; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#11
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 307.10
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-11
Word count	13
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Θεόπομπος (Theopompus)	Φιλιππικῶν · FGrHist 115 F 47
Φιλιππικά (Philippicae (Philippics))	FGrHist 115 F 47

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Θάψακος	Thapsacus · place · corrected · Q196987
Συρία	Syria · place · corrected · Q13415123
Εὐφράτης	Euphrates · place · corrected · Q34589
Θαψακηνός	Thapsacene (inhabitant of Thapsacus) · people
Θάψακος	place · explicit · wikidata: Q196987 · seeded_headword_alignment

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 · 2 scan rows · 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 · 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... + 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	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	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
Gloss	γένος τό gloss:c746b76469e4485d	descent Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἱστορικός ὁ gloss:f02a916b8e56ad5f	scholar (note Steph. doesn't use σχολαστικός) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	πολίτης ὁ gloss:1c7dda400d7265cb	citizen 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 1.149

char LCS 57 (77.0%) · word LCS 10 (76.9%)

Stephanos

Θάψακος, πόλις Συρίας πρὸς τῷ Εὐφράτῃ. Θεόπομπος ἐν Φιλιππικῶν τρίτῳ. ὁ πολίτης Θαψακηνός.

Herodian

…αρύνεται, Λάβδακος, Πίνακος, Ἀσσάρακος, Ἴθακος ἥρως. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ὁμοφώνως τῷ οἰκιστῇ «Ἴθακος Ὀδυσσεύς». Φύλακος, Ὕλακος, Νώρακος πόλις Παννονίας. Γάζακος κώμη μεγάλη τῆς Μηδίας. Ἀρριανὸς ἐν Παρθικῶν τετάρτῃ «τῆς Γαζάκου» Θάψακος πόλις Συρίας πρὸς τῷ Εὐφράτῃ. Θεόπομπος ἐν Φιλιππικῶν τρίτῳ. σεσημείωται τὸ Ἀστακός—πόλις Βιθυνίας ἀπὸ Ἀστακοῦ τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος καὶ νύμφης Ὀλβίας, ὡς Ἀρριανὸς ἐν Βιθυνιακοῖς ἱστορεῖ. ἔστι καὶ Ἀκαρνανίας πόλις—καὶ Ναννακός καὶ Θημακός δῆμος τῆς Ἐρεχθηΐδος φυλῆς. * Τὰ εἰς 'ακος' λήγ…