Θάλπουσα - Stephanos Ethnika

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city

Θάλπουσα, πόλις τῆς Ἀρκαδίας τοῦ Ὀρχομενοῦ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Θαλπούσιος.

Thalpousa: a city in Arkadia, belonging to Orchomenos. The ethnonym is 'Thalpousios'.

Text Details

Entry	#3
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 306.5
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-12
Word count	9
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Θάλπουσα	Thalpousa · place
Ἀρκαδία	Arcadia · place
Ὀρχομενός	Orchomenus · place
Θαλπούσιος	Thalپousian (inhabitant of Thalpousa) · people
Θάλπουσα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q1142954 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	The text identifies Thalpo(u)sa as a city of Arcadia, associated with Orchomenus, and gives its ethnic name as Thalpousios, but it does not explain the origin or formation of the place name.

Links

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

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.269

char LCS 36 (65.5%) · word LCS 6 (66.7%)

Stephanos

Θάλπουσα, πόλις τῆς Ἀρκαδίας τοῦ Ὀρχομενοῦ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Θαλπούσιος.

Herodian

… Νηρηΐδων «Φέρουσά τε Δυναμένη τε» (Σ 43). Ἴωνος δὲ τοῦ Ξούθου ἀναγράφεται μήτηρ Κρέουσα, ὁμωνύμως δὲ ταύτῃ καὶ Αἰνείου γυνή. Μέδουσα μία τῶν Γοργόνων. Στεινώ τ´ Εὐρυάλη τε Μέδουσά τε λυγρὰ παθοῦσα (Hesiod. Theog. 276). Θάλπουσα πόλις τῆς Ἀρκαδίας τοῦ Ὀρχομενοῦ. Σώζουσαι πόλεις τρεῖς Φοινίκης Πισιδίας καὶ Αἰθιοπίας. Μύρτουσα ὄρος Λιβύης. Καλάθουσα πόλις τοῦ Πόντου καὶ πόλις οὐ πόρρω τῶν Ἡρακλείων στηλῶν, Ἑκαταῖος δὲ Εὐρώπῃ Καλάθην αὐτὴν καλεῖ. Οἴνουσα· οὕτως ἐκαλεῖτο ἡ Καρχηδώ…