Θεστίδειον - Stephanos Ethnika

Θεστίδειον OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Θεστίδειον, πόλις Θεσσαλική. Ἑλλάνικος δὲ δίχα τοῦ « σ » φησίν, ἀπὸ Θέτιδος. ἔστι καὶ λίμνη Θρᾴκης, παρ´ ᾗ Νῦσα χωρίον. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Θεστιδεύς.

Thestideion: a city in Thessaly. Hellanikos gives the name without the ‘s’, after Thetis. There is also a lake in Thrace, beside which is the locality Nysa. The ethnonym is ‘Thestideus’.

AI translation — gpt-5.6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#38
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 312.7
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-11
Word count	22
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑλλάνικος (Hellanicus)	FGrHist 4 F 136 = fr. 136 Fowler

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Θεστιδεῖον	Thestideion (Thestideon) · place · corrected · Q60790511
Θεσσαλία	Thessaly · place
Θέτις	Thetis · deity
Θρᾴκη	Thrace · place · corrected · Q41741
Νῦσα	Nysa · place · corrected · Q60791141
Θεστιδεύς	Thestideus (ethnicon, inhabitant of Thestideion) · people
Thestideion in Thessaly	place · city · Thessaly · explicit · unresolved
Lake in Thrace near Nysa	place · lake · Thrace · implicit · unresolved
Nysa near the Thracian lake	place · village/settlement · Thrace · explicit · unresolved

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	Hellanicus says (the name is) from Thetis.

Links

Place links	Thetidium \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_271.jpg
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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 DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" 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 · 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	λιμή ὁ gloss:6f81c31b2d09b3f3	lake, harbor Domain: WATER BODIES/COASTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χωρίον τό gloss:619c2907ea980b25	locality; point (only in μέσα χωρία: ‘halfway point’) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL 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 1.375

char LCS 32 (29.6%) · word LCS 8 (36.4%)

Stephanos

Θεστίδειον, πόλις Θεσσαλική. Ἑλλάνικος δὲ δίχα τοῦ « σ » φησίν, ἀπὸ Θέτιδος. ἔστι καὶ λίμνη Θρᾴκης, παρ´ ᾗ Νῦσα χωρίον. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Θεστιδεύς.

Herodian

ὁμοίως καὶ Θετίδειον. ἔστι δὲ καὶ πόλις Θεσσαλικὴ Θετίδειον. Ἑλλάνικος. λέγεται δὲ καὶ Θεστίδειον. ἔστι καὶ λίμνη Θρᾴκης, παρ´ ᾗ Νῦσα χωρίον. προπερισπῶνται δ´ ὁμοίως, ὅσα ἔχει προϋπάρχοντα εἰς 'ος' καθαρόν, παραληγόμενα ἢ μόνῳ τῷ 'ι' ἢ προηγουμένου αὐτοῦ τοῦ 'α' ὥστε εἶναι πρὸ τέλους τὴν 'αι' δίφθογγον ἢ ὅσα κτητικά, Ἀσκληπιεῖον· Ἀσκληπιός γάρ. Πτολεμαεῖον·…