Θυεσσός - Stephanos Ethnika

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Θυεσσός, πόλις Λυδίας, ὀξυτόνως. ἀπὸ Θυεσσοῦ καπήλου. ἔστι καὶ Πισιδίας, ἧς τὸ ἐθνικὸν Θυεσσεύς.

Thyessos: a city of Lydia, oxytone. From Thyessos a shopkeeper. There is also of Pisidia, whose ethnic is Thyesseus.

External translation supplied by Brady Kiesling; reported Claude Fable 5.5 translation. Credit: Brady Kiesling and the Stephanos project (Greg Baker, Gabriel Jower, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling). Not individually verified; exact Greek input not supplied.

Text Details

Entry	#68
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 319.13
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-11
Word count	14

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Θυεσσός	Thyessos (Thyessus) · place
Λυδία	Lydia · place · corrected · Q620765
Θυεσσός	Thyessos (gen.) · place
Πισιδία	Pisidia · place · corrected · Q621805
Θυεσσεύς	Thyesseus (ethnic name) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	from (or after) Thyessos Kapēlos
Unclear Metalinguistic	oxytone (i.e. pronounced with the accent on the final syllable)
Unclear Metalinguistic	There is also (one) in Pisidia, whose ethnicon is 'Thyesseus'.

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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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS 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
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym 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 1.210

char LCS 33 (42.9%) · word LCS 6 (42.9%)

Stephanos

Θυεσσός, πόλις Λυδίας, ὀξυτόνως. ἀπὸ Θυεσσοῦ καπήλου. ἔστι καὶ Πισιδίας, ἧς τὸ ἐθνικὸν Θυεσσεύς.

Herodian

… βασίλισσαν καὶ πρόπολον Ἀρτέμιδος εἶναί φασιν. ἔστι καὶ Ἔφεσος νῆσος ἐν τῷ Νείλῳ καὶ Χίος καὶ Λέσβος καὶ Κύπρος καὶ Σάμος καὶ ἄλλαι, ὡς Ἑκαταῖος. Ἔρεσος πόλις Λέσβου ἀπὸ Ἐρέσου τοῦ Μάκαρος. τὸ μέντοι Θυεσσός πόλις Λυδίας ἀπὸ Θυεσσοῦ καπήλου—ἔστι καὶ Πισιδίας—δύο 'σσ' ἔχον ὀξύνεται. Τὰ εἰς 'σος' ὑπερδισύλλαβα τῷ 'η' παραληγόμενα ἕτερον ἔχοντα 'σ' ὀξύνεται· εἰ δέ τι βαρύτονον εἴη, παρώνυμον ἂν εἴη. τὰ δὲ ἓν ἀναδεξάμενα 'σ' βαρύνεται, σπάνια δέ ἐστι, χωρὶς εἰ μὴ ἔννοιαν συνθέσ…