Ἰδάλιον - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἰδάλιον OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Ἰδάλιον, πόλις Κύπρου. χρησμὸς γὰρ ἐδόθη ... ὅπου ἴδοι τὸν ἥλιον ἀνίσχοντα, πόλιν κτίσαι. ὁ οὖν Χαλκήνωρ περιών ... τὶς τῶν σὺν αὐτῷ ἔφη “εἶδον βασιλεῦ τὸν ἅλιον”. ἀφ´ οὗ ὠνομάσθαι τὴν πόλιν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἰδαλεύς.

Idalion: a city in Cyprus. For an oracle was given... that he should found a city wherever he saw the sun rising. So, as Chalkenor was going about... one of those with him said, ‘My king, I saw the sun.’ From this the city is said to have been named. The ethnonym is ‘Idaleus’.

AI translation — gpt-5.6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#23
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 326.6
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-12
Word count	35
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.6-sol

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἰδάλιον	Idalium · place
Κύπρος	Cyprus · place
Χαλκήνωρ	Chalcenor · person
Ἰδαλεύς	Idalian · people
Ἰδάλιον	place · explicit · wikidata: Q1656624 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Folk Etymology Narrative	For an oracle was given to found a city wherever he should see the sun rising. As Chalkēnōr was going around, one of those with him said, ‘Look, king, at the sun!’ From this the city was named (Idalion), apparently through the punning association of ἴδε (‘look’) and ἥλιος/ἅλιος (‘sun’).

Links

Place links	Idalion \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_297.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (NEUTER ETYMON) + ἀφ' οὗ + Y (DERIVED NOUN) formula:36c80425f64385f6	Translate as "X... from which is Y" or "X... as per 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (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
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	πόλισμα τό * gloss:9651cd1c383eacc4	town Domain: SETTLEMENTS/STRUCTURES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.