Ἰρά - Stephanos Ethnika

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mountain

Ἰρά, ὄρος Μεσσηνίας. Ῥιανὸς ἐν Μεσσηνιακῶν πρώτῳ. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Μαλιέων ἀπὸ Ἴρου. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Λέσβου. καὶ ἡ παρ´ Ὁμήρῳ “Καρδαμύλην τ´ Ἐνόπην τε καὶ Ἰρήν”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἰριεύς τῶν Μαλιέων.

Ira: a mountain of Messenia. Rhianos in the first of the Messeniaka. There is also a city of the Malians from Iros. There is also a city of Lesbos. And the one in Homer: "Kardamyle and Enope and Ire". The ethnonym Irieus of the Malians.

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	#92
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 337.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-13
Word count	32

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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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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	X (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative BOOK NAME) formula:c795eaabedf9a542	*Translate as "Χ, in his Y"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	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 · 1 scan row · 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
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ὄρος ὁ gloss:184051ff413f789d	mountain, mount (X ὄρος = 'Mount X') Domain: TERRAIN/LANDMASSES	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 1.263

char LCS 44 (29.9%) · word LCS 11 (34.4%)

Stephanos

Ἰρά, ὄρος Μεσσηνίας. Ῥιανὸς ἐν Μεσσηνιακῶν πρώτῳ. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Μαλιέων ἀπὸ Ἴρου. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Λέσβου. καὶ ἡ παρ´ Ὁμήρῳ “Καρδαμύλην τ´ Ἐνόπην τε καὶ Ἰρήν”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἰριεύς τῶν Μαλιέων.

Herodian

σπεῖρα, στεῖρα ἡ μὴ τίκτουσα καὶ τὸ μέρος τῆς νεώς, ζεῖρα εἶδος χιτῶνος, οἱ δὲ ζώνης. * Τὰ εἰς 'ρα' τῇ 'ει' διφθόγγῳ ἢ 'ι' μακρῷ παραληγόμενα δισύλλαβα ὀξύνεται, εἰρά ἢ ἰρά ἡ ἐκκλησία ὡσαύτως καὶ Ἰρά ὄρος Μεσσήνης. Ῥιανὸς ἐν Μεσσηνιακῶν πρώτῳ. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Μαλιέων καὶ Λέσβου. καὶ ἡ παρ´ Ὁμήρῳ »Καρδαμύλην τ´ Ἐνόπην τε καὶ Ἱρήν« (ι 150). εἰσὶ δὲ οἳ βαρύνουσιν εἰς ἰδιότητα ὡς ἐπὶ τοῦ »Ῥίπην τε Στρατίην τε« (Il. Β 606), »Ὄρθην« (ibid. 739). ἡ δὲ αὐτὴ ἀναλογία ἐχώρει καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν εἰς '…