Θάψος - Stephanos Ethnika

Θάψος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Θάψος, πόλις Λιβύης. Στράβων ἑπτακαιδεκάτῳ. ἔστι καὶ Σικελίας. ἔστι δὲ χερσόνησος ἐν στενῷ ἰσθμῷ, ὡς Θουκυδίδης. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Θάψιος.

Thapsos: a city in Libya. Strabo, book 17. There is also one in Sicily. It is a peninsula on a narrow isthmus, as per Thucydides. The ethnonym is 'Thapsios'.

AI translation — gpt-5.5; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#13
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 308.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-11
Word count	19
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	ιζ (17,3,16 [C 834,19])

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Θάψος	Thapsos · place · corrected · Q41683
Λιβύη	Libya · place · corrected · Q2370577
Σικελία	Sicily · place · corrected · Q4951156
Θάψος	place · explicit · wikidata: Q948682 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Thapsus \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_261.jpg
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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 · 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 · 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
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 · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	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	χερσόνησος (χερρόνησος) ἡ gloss:06a2cd955f7fdcc9	peninsula Domain: WATER BODIES/COASTS	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 1.226

char LCS 91 (85.8%) · word LCS 16 (84.2%)

Stephanos

Θάψος, πόλις Λιβύης. Στράβων ἑπτακαιδεκάτῳ. ἔστι καὶ Σικελίας. ἔστι δὲ χερσόνησος ἐν στενῷ ἰσθμῷ, ὡς Θουκυδίδης. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Θάψιος.

Herodian

…ἀνὰ τὰ ὄρη καὶ πολεμικοὺς εἶναι καὶ βασιλέως οὐκ ἀκούειν». καὶ Σοφαίνετος ἐν Κύρου ἀναβάσει φησὶ περὶ αὐτῶν. Τὰ εἰς 'ψος' δισύλλαβα μὴ ἐπιθετικὰ βαρύνεται, Μόψος, γύψος, Τίψος ἡ πόλις, Μίψος τὸ ἔθνος, θάψος εἶδος ξύλου, Θάψος πόλις Λιβύης Στράβων ἑπτακαιδεκάτῳ. ἔστι καὶ Σικελίας. ἔστι δὲ χερσόνησος ἐν στενῷ ἰσθμῷ, ὡς Θουκυδίδης ( 6, 97). Λάμψος παῖς Κοδρίδου καὶ ἀπ´ αὐτοῦ μοῖρα τῆς Κλαζομενίων χώρας, ὡς Ἔφορος