Ἰαλυσός - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἰαλυσός OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Ἰαλυσός, πόλις ἐν Ῥόδῳ καὶ ἐν Σκυθίᾳ καὶ ἐν τῷ Ἀδρίᾳ. ὁ πολίτης Ἰαλύσιος καὶ Ἰηλύσιος καὶ Ἰαλυσιάς.

Ialysos: a city on Rhodes, and in Skythia, and on the Adrias. A citizen is an 'Ialysios', 'Ielysios', or 'Ialysias'.

Text Details

Entry	#7
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 321.17
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-11
Word count	18
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἰαλυσός	Ialysus · place
Ῥόδος	Rhodes · place
Σκυθία	Scythia · place
Ἀδρίας	the Adriatic (Sea) · place
Ἰαλύσιος	Ialysian · other
Ἰηλύσιος	Ihely sian / Ielysian · other
Ἰαλυσιάς	Ialysian · other
Ialysos on Rhodes	place · city · Rhodes · explicit · wikidata: Q1018156 · candidate
Ialysos in Skythia	place · city · Skythia · implicit · unresolved
Ialysos on the Adrias	place · city · Adrias (the Adriatic region/sea) · implicit · unresolved

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Place Transfer	Ialysos: a city in Rhodes, and also in Scythia and in the Adriatic.
Unclear Metalinguistic	The name for its citizen is Ialysios, or Iēlysios, or Ialysiās.

Links

Place links	Ialysos \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_289.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 · 6 occurrences
Gloss	ἐν Ῥόδῳ gloss:f2adc7e96d46148c	on Rhodes 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 1.213

char LCS 34 (43.0%) · word LCS 10 (55.6%)

Stephanos

Ἰαλυσός, πόλις ἐν Ῥόδῳ καὶ ἐν Σκυθίᾳ καὶ ἐν τῷ Ἀδρίᾳ. ὁ πολίτης Ἰαλύσιος καὶ Ἰηλύσιος καὶ Ἰαλυσιάς.

Herodian

… πόλις Αἰγύπτου προσεχὴς τῷ Κασίῳ ὄρει. Ἡρόδοτος ( 3, 5). ὡσαύτως καὶ τὰ δι´ ἑνὸς 'σ' ἐκφερόμενα προπαροξύνεται, μέθυσος, γόγγυσος, Διόνυσος, Ὄνυσος ὁ ποταμός. ἄφυσος, ἄρυσος ἀγγεῖον πλεκτὸν σπυριδῶδες. Ἰάλυσος ἥρως καὶ πόλις ἐν Ῥόδῳ καὶ ἐν Σκυθίᾳ καὶ ἐν τῷ Ἀδρίᾳ. Ἀμφίλυσος ποταμὸς Σάμου. Εὐφορίων Ἀρτεμιδώρῳ »δαῖμον ὃς Ἀμφιλύσοιο ῥόον«. Τὰ εἰς 'σσος' ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβὰς τῷ 'ω' παραληγόμενα ὀξύνεται, Κερωσσός πόλις Ἀπολλωνιάδος. Βηρωσσός, Κεδρωσσός ἔθνος πλησίον τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσση…