Ἱμέρα - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἱμέρα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Ἱμέρα, πόλις Σικελίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἔστι καὶ Λιβύης. ὁ πολίτης Ἱμεραῖος. ἔστι καὶ ποταμὸς Ἱμέρας ὡς Νικάνωρ.

Himera: a city of Sicily. Hekataios in the Europe. There is also of Libya. The citizen Himeraios. There is also a river Himeras, as Nikanor.

External translation supplied by Brady Kiesling; reported Claude Fable 5.5 translation. Credit: Brady Kiesling and the Stephanos project (Greg Baker, Gabriel Jower, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling). Not individually verified; exact Greek input not supplied.

Text Details

Entry	#58
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 331.17
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-12
Word count	17

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	πολίτης ὁ gloss:1c7dda400d7265cb	citizen Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL 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.

Herodian 1.260

char LCS 45 (50.0%) · word LCS 8 (47.1%)

Stephanos

Ἱμέρα, πόλις Σικελίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἔστι καὶ Λιβύης. ὁ πολίτης Ἱμεραῖος. ἔστι καὶ ποταμὸς Ἱμέρας ὡς Νικάνωρ.

Herodian

…οκατάληκτα τρισύλλαβα παραληγόμενα τῷ 'ε' μονογενῆ βαρύνεται, εἰ μὴ ἐπιθετικὰ εἴη, ἡμέρα, ἀσκέρα εἶδος ὑποδήματος, διφθέρα, λακέρα, χολέρα, ἑσπέρα, ὑπέρα, ἀλέρα, Τερμέρα Ὠγύγου μήτηρ, κυσέρα, Θεσκέρα ἡ τιθηνὸς Διονύσου. Ἱμέρα πόλις Σικελίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἔστι καὶ Λιβύης, μεθ´ ὧν καὶ Φιλωτέρα πόλις περὶ τὴν Τρωγλοδυτικήν, Σατύρου κτίσμα. Ἀπολλόδωρος δὲ Φιλωτερίδα καλεῖ. ἔστι καὶ κοίλης Συρίας Φιλωτέρα, ὡς Χάραξ ἐν ὀγδόῳ χρονικῶν. τινὲς δὲ καὶ Φιλωτερίαν αὐτὴν εἰρήκασιν. τὸ δὲ Γλυκερά ὀξ…

Herodian 1.369

char LCS 30 (33.3%) · word LCS 5 (29.4%)

Stephanos

Ἱμέρα, πόλις Σικελίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἔστι καὶ Λιβύης. ὁ πολίτης Ἱμεραῖος. ἔστι καὶ ποταμὸς Ἱμέρας ὡς Νικάνωρ.

Herodian

…Ὑπερβορέων—προπερισπᾶται ἐπιθετικὰ ὄντα. τὸ ἀρχαῖον προπερισπᾶται ὡς τριγενὲς καὶ τὸ χαῖον ὡς δισύλλαβον. Τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'αιον' μονογενῆ ὑπὲρ τρεῖς συλλαβὰς προπαροξύνεται, Ἀθήναιον τὸ τέμενος, Λιλύβαιον ἡ πρὸς δύσιν ἄκρα τῆς Σικελίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἔστι καὶ πόλις. κεφάλαιον, περιβόλαιον, Φωτίναιον