Θεμισσός - Stephanos Ethnika

Θεμισσός OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Θεμισσός, πόλις Καρίας, ἣν ἔκτισε Δάδας. ἀπὸ Θεμισσοῦ παιδός, ὃν λύκοι διεχρήσαντο. ὁ πολίτης Θεμισσεύς.

Translation pending

Text Details

Entry	#21
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 309.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-11
Word count	15

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Θεμισσός	Themissos (place) · place
Καρία	Caria · place · corrected · Q193214
Δάδας	Dadas (founder) · person
Θεμισσός	of Themissos · place
Θεμισσεύς	Themisseus (citizen of Themissos) · people
Θεμισσός	place · explicit · wikidata: Q108779256 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	From Themissos, a boy/child, whom wolves devoured/attacked.
Unclear Metalinguistic	which Dadas founded.
Morphological Composition	the citizen (inhabitant) is called Themisseeus (demonym formed from the place-name).

Links

Place links	Themissos (Pauly-Wissowa)
Page scans	vol2_261.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.212

char LCS 67 (79.8%) · word LCS 12 (80.0%)

Stephanos

Θεμισσός, πόλις Καρίας, ἣν ἔκτισε Δάδας. ἀπὸ Θεμισσοῦ παιδός, ὃν λύκοι διεχρήσαντο. ὁ πολίτης Θεμισσεύς.

Herodian

… ἐν τούτῳ τῷ πολισματίῳ τὰς διατριβὰς ἐποιεῖτο, ὡς Ἔφορος. Ἀρχέμισσος ὄνομα ποταμοῦ. Τριπόλισσος ἔθνος Θεσπρωτικόν, οὓς καὶ Τριπολισσίους καλεῖ Ῥιανὸς ἐν τῷ πεντεκαιδεκάτῳ. Βαρβάλισσος φρούριον τῆς ἕω περιτετειχισμένον, Θέμισσος πόλις Καρίας, ἣν ἔκτισε Δάδας, ἀπὸ Θεμίσσου παιδός, ὃν λύκοι διεχρήσαντο. Μούκισσος πόλις Καππαδοκίας. Μύγισσος πόλις Καρίας. Ἑκαταῖος τετάρτῃ γενεαλογιῶν. Παροπάνισσος πόλις καὶ ὄρος Ἰνδικῆς, ἀφ´ οὗ Παροπανισσάδαι οἱ οἰκοῦντες. Ἀπολλόδωρος δὲ ἐν δευτέρῳ περὶ γῆς ἀπ´ αὐτῶν φησι τὸ ὄρος κεκλῆ…