Ἰσσός - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ἰσσός, πόλις μεταξὺ Συρίας καὶ Κιλικίας, ἐν ᾗ Ἀλέξανδρος Δαρεῖον ἐνίκησεν, ἣ ἐκλήθη διὰ τοῦτο Νικόπολις ἀπ´ αὐτοῦ. καὶ ὁ Ἰσσικὸς κόλπος. ὁ πολίτης Ἰσσαῖος, ὡς Νεῖλος Νειλαῖος. ἐκεῖ δὲ καὶ ποταμὸς Πίναρος ὀνομαζόμενος.

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Text Details

Entry	#108
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 340.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-13
Word count	34

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 1 occurrence
Formula	καί + X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + Y (nominative PROPER NOUN) formula:0af867b3dd6df580	Translate as "Y is also 'X'" 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:7163e35f4bd326d9	Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	καλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται/ἐκλήθη (ἀπο...) gloss:ef7a95cd709173ed	is/used to be/is/was called/named after (+ ἀπο) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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Herodian 1.208

char LCS 33 (18.9%) · word LCS 6 (17.6%)

Stephanos

Ἰσσός, πόλις μεταξὺ Συρίας καὶ Κιλικίας, ἐν ᾗ Ἀλέξανδρος Δαρεῖον ἐνίκησεν, ἣ ἐκλήθη διὰ τοῦτο Νικόπολις ἀπ´ αὐτοῦ. καὶ ὁ Ἰσσικὸς κόλπος. ὁ πολίτης Ἰσσαῖος, ὡς Νεῖλος Νειλαῖος. ἐκεῖ δὲ καὶ ποταμὸς Πίναρος ὀνομαζόμενος.

Herodian

…ησσός ἔθνος τῆς Ταυρινίας. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν δευτέρῳ περὶ γῆς «ἔπειτα δ´ Ἑρμώνασσα καὶ Κῆπος πόλις, τρίτον δὲ τὸ Ψησσῶν ἔθνος». Τνυσσός πόλις Καρίας. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Βυσσός τὸ ἐθνικὸν καὶ ἡ νῆσος καὶ βυσσός ὁ βυθός, πεσσός. Ἰσσός πόλις μεταξὺ Συρίας καὶ Κιλικίας. δισσός, τρισσός, λισσός, κισσός. τὸ δὲ Κίσσος τὸ κύριον βαρύνεται. ὡσαύτως καὶ τὸ βύσσος τὸ θηλυκὸν προσηγορικὸν ἀφ´ οὗ καὶ βύσσινον, καὶ Νέσσος ἐπὶ τοῦ Κενταύρου καὶ Λίσσος πόλις Ἰλλυρίας· τὸ γὰρ γλωσσός ὁ λάλος παρὰ …