Θῶνις - Stephanos Ethnika

Θῶνις OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Θῶνις, πόλις Αἰγύπτου, ἀπὸ Θῶνος βασιλέως τοῦ ξενίσαντος Μενέλαον. κεῖται δὲ κατὰ τὸ στόμα τὸ Κανωβικόν. ὁ πολίτης Θωνίτης.

Thonis: a city of Egypt, from Thon the king who entertained Menelaos. It lies at the Kanobic mouth. The citizen Thonites.

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	#81
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 320.26
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-11
Word count	19

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Θῶνις	Thonis (city) · place · corrected · Q1607758
Αἴγυπτος	Egypt · place · corrected · Q11768
Θῶνος	Thonos (king) · person
Μενέλαος	Menelaus · person · corrected · Q171839
Κανωβικόν	(the) Canobic/Canopic mouth (of the Nile) · place
Θωνίτης	Thonite (citizen of Thonis) · people
Θῶνις	place · explicit · wikidata: Q1607758 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	from Thonos, the king who hosted (entertained) Menelaus

Links

Place links	Heracleion \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_287.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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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	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
Gloss	κεῖται gloss:ab7a888bea5343a6	is situated Domain: MEASUREMENT & SPACE 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 1.94

char LCS 47 (47.0%) · word LCS 8 (42.1%)

Stephanos

Θῶνις, πόλις Αἰγύπτου, ἀπὸ Θῶνος βασιλέως τοῦ ξενίσαντος Μενέλαον. κεῖται δὲ κατὰ τὸ στόμα τὸ Κανωβικόν. ὁ πολίτης Θωνίτης.

Herodian

…. ἔστι καὶ Ἰβηρίας ποταμός. ἔστι καὶ Ἰταλίας τρίτος ποταμὸς περὶ τὸν Τίβεριν ποταμόν. Τάνις πόλις μεγάλη Αἰγύπτου. Τὰ εἰς 'νις' δισύλλαβα παραληγόμενα φωνήεντι μακρῷ ἢ ἐκτεινομένῳ βαρύνεται, μὴ ὑποκοριστικὰ ὄντα, ὄρνις, Θῶνις πόλις Αἰγύπτου ἀπὸ Θῶνος βασιλέως τοῦ ξενίσαντος τὸν Μενέλαον. κεῖται δὲ κατὰ τὸ στόμα τὸ Κανωβικόν. Σαῦνις πόλις Ἀραβίας, μῆνις, ἶνις, ἦνις, νῆνις ἡ νεᾶνις. τὸ μέντοι φωνίς ὑποκοριστικόν ἐστι. τούτῳ δὲ