Θαλάμαι - Stephanos Ethnika

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Θαλάμαι, πόλις τῆς Μεσσηνίας. Θεόπομπος τριακοστῷ δευτέρῳ Φιλιππικῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Θαλαμᾶται.

Thalamai: a city in Messenia. Theopompos, book 32 in his Philippika. The ethnonym is 'Thalamatai'.

Text Details

Entry	#1
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 306.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-12
Word count	10
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Θεόπομπος (Theopompus)	Φιλιππικῶν · FGrHist 115 F 172
Φιλιππικά (Philippics)	Φιλιππικά · FGrHist 115 F 172

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Θαλαμά	Thalamai · place
Μεσσηνία	Messenia · place
Θαλάμαι	place · explicit · wikidata: Q16643340 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	No etymological explanation is given in this entry; it only identifies Thalamai as a city of Messenia and gives the ethnic form.

Links

Place links	Thalamae \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_257.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:5e7f1861601f28d1	*Translate as "X, book Y in his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 (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	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
Gloss	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people 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 1.325

char LCS 59 (76.6%) · word LCS 8 (72.7%)

Stephanos

Θαλάμαι, πόλις τῆς Μεσσηνίας. Θεόπομπος τριακοστῷ δευτέρῳ Φιλιππικῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Θαλαμᾶται.

Herodian

εἰ μὴ εἴη ἐκ συναιρέσεως, Σάμη νῆσος, καλάμη καὶ Καλάμαι πόλις Πελοποννήσου. Παυσανίας τετάρτῳ (c. 31, 3). παλάμη, Ζαδράμη βασίλειον τῶν Κυναιδοκολπιτῶν. θαλάμη, Θαλάμαι πόλις τῆς Μεσσηνίας. Θεόπομπος τριακοστῷ δευτέρῳ Φιλιππικῶν. Κοροκονδάμη πλησίον Σινώπης. Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἑνδεκάτῳ γεωγραφουμένων. Ὀργάμη πόλις ἐν τῷ Ἴστρῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. τὸ δὲ σπιθαμή ὀξύνεται καὶ τὸ Ἱεραμαί πόλις Καρίας. τὸ δὲ σησαμῆ περισπᾶται ὡς ἐκ συναιρέσεως. * Τὰ εἰς 'μη' …