Θαμαναῖοι - Stephanos Ethnika

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Θαμαναῖοι, ἔθνος Πέρσαις ὑπήκοον. Ἡρόδοτος τρίτῃ.

Thamanaioi: a people subject to the Persians. Herodotos, book 3.

Text Details

Entry	#4
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 306.7
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-12
Word count	6
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἡρόδοτος (Herodotus)	3.93.2 and 3.117.1

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Θαμαναῖοι	Thamaneans · people
Πέρσαι	Persians · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	A people subject to the Persians.

Links

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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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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	Χ (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:c22408ee90fd1a1e	*Translate as "X, in book Y of his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	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 1.130

char LCS 32 (78.0%) · word LCS 5 (83.3%)

Stephanos

Θαμαναῖοι, ἔθνος Πέρσαις ὑπήκοον. Ἡρόδοτος τρίτῃ.

Herodian

…ήσειαν. οὗτοι οὔτε ἀρτοποιέουσι οὔτε ἐσθίουσι οὔτε νομίζουσι ἐὰν μὴ ἱρῶν οὕνεκεν. ἄλφιτα δὲ ποιέουσι λεπτότερα κατάπερ οἱ Ἕλληνες καὶ ἐσθίουσι μάζας ποῶν». Ἑβραῖος. οὕτως Ἰουδαῖοι ἀπὸ Ἀβράμωνος, ὥς φησι Χάραξ. Θαμαναῖος ἔθνος Πέρσαις ὑπήκοον. Ἡρόδοτος τρίτῃ (c. 93). Ἰβαῖος ὁ καὶ Ἰβηνός ἔθνος Κελτικῆς. Λαιαῖος ἔθνος Παιονικόν. Θουκυδίδης δευτέρᾳ ( 96). Παναῖος ἔθνος Ἠδωνικὸν οὐ πόρρω Ἀμφιπόλεως. Μιναῖος ἔθνος ἐν τῇ παραλίᾳ τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης. Παρθυαῖοι ἔθνος πάλαι μὲν Σκυ…