Θαμία

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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Θαμία, πόλις Θεσσαλίας. Ῥιανὸς ιδʹ Θεσσαλικῶν. καὶ Θαμίεια, τὸ ἐθνικὸν Θαμιεύς.

Thamia: a city in Thessaly. Rhianos, book 14 in his Thessalika. Also 'Thamieia'; the ethnonym is 'Thamieus'.

Text Details

Entry#5
Greek textmeineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source idMeineke 306.8
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-12
Word count11
AI translationgpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Ῥιανός (Rhianus)Θεσσαλικά · FGrHist 265 F 26 = fr. 42 Powell
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΘαμίαThamia · place
ΘεσσαλίαThessaly · place
ΘαμίαThamia (variant form) · place
ΘαμιεύςThamian · people
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Unclear Metalinguistic“Also Thamieia; the ethnic name is Thamieus.” This records variant forms of the place name and its demonym, but does not explain the name’s origin.

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Translation Guidance

KindRuleGuidanceDetection
FormulaX (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
FormulaX (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
FormulaX (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN)
formula:276bf314e3ad9973
Translate as "X, X"
Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS		Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
FormulaX (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
Formulaτὸ 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
FormulaΧ (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
Glossἐθνικόν τό
gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a
ethnonym
Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Glossἔθνος τό
gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8
people
Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.288
char LCS 47 (74.6%) · word LCS 8 (72.7%)
Stephanos
Θαμία, πόλις Θεσσαλίας. Ῥιανὸς ιδʹ Θεσσαλικῶν. καὶ Θαμίεια, τὸ ἐθνικὸν Θαμιεύς.
Herodian
…κία ἡ πρότερον Παραλία. Εὐκρατιδία πόλις Βάκτρων παρὰ τὸν Εὐκρατίδαν. Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῳ. Εὐπαλία πόλις Λοκρίδος, ἣν Εὐπάλιον Ἀρτεμίδωρός φησι. Εὐπατρία πόλις Λυδῶν. Ἠλιδία. Ψωφιδία. Ἠμαθία πόλις καὶ χώρα ἡ νῦν Μακεδονία. Θαμία πόλις Θεσσαλίας. Ῥιανὸς ιδʹ Θεσσαλικῶν καὶ Θαμίεια. Θαυμακία πόλις Μαγνησίας. Ὅμηρος (Β 716) «οἱ δ´ ἄρα Μηθώνην καὶ Θαυμακίην ἐνέμοντο» ἀπὸ Θαυμάκου τοῦ Ποίαντος πατρός. δευτέρα πόλις κατὰ τὸν Μαλιακὸν κόλπον ἡ καὶ Θαυμακοί. Θεσπρωτία πόλις καὶ χώρα ἔξω τοῦ Ἀμβρακικοῦ κ…

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