Ἴστροι - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ἴστροι, ἔθνος ἐν τῷ Ἰονίῳ κόλπῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν [Ἴστρος], καὶ κτητικὸν Ἰστρικός, ὡς τὸ Ταῦροι Ταυρικός.

Istroi: a people on the Ionian gulf. Hekataios in the Europe. The ethnonym, and the possessive Istrikos, as 'Tauroi' 'Taurikos'.

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	#114
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 340.22
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-13
Word count	17

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	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	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	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
Formula	ὡς + X (definite ARTICLE + ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:bcd70ae781e7b205	Translate as "just as 'Y' is from the name X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	κόλπος ὁ gloss:ba395d16c244385c	gulf, bay Domain: WATER BODIES/COASTS Rule status: In progress	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 1.204

char LCS 33 (36.3%) · word LCS 7 (38.9%)

Stephanos

Ἴστροι, ἔθνος ἐν τῷ Ἰονίῳ κόλπῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν [Ἴστρος], καὶ κτητικὸν Ἰστρικός, ὡς τὸ Ταῦροι Ταυρικός.

Herodian

… δισύλλαβα ἔχοντα πρὸ τοῦ 'ρ' τὸ 'τ' μόνον ἢ μεθ´ ἑτέρου συμφώνου μὴ ἐπιθετικὰ βαρύνεται, Χύτρος Κύπρου πόλις, ἣν ὠνομάσθαι μὲν Ξεναγόρας φησὶν ἀπὸ Χύτρου τοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου τοῦ Ἀκάμαντος. Λεῦκτρος, οἶστρος, βόστρος, Ἴστρος ἔθνος ἐν τῷ Ἰονίῳ κόλπῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἔστι δὲ καὶ πόλις Κρήτης, ἣν Ἀρτεμίδωρος Ἰστρῶνά φησι. δευτέρα πόλις Ἴστρος ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ. Ἀρριανὸς δὲ Ἰστρίαν ὡς Ὀλβίαν αὐτήν φησι. τρίτη νῆσος πόλιν ὁμώνυμον ἔχουσα κατὰ τὸ Τριόπιον τῆς Κνιδίας. τετάρτη πόλις τῆς Ἰαπυγ…

Herodian 1.152

char LCS 23 (25.3%) · word LCS 5 (27.8%)

Stephanos

Ἴστροι, ἔθνος ἐν τῷ Ἰονίῳ κόλπῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν [Ἴστρος], καὶ κτητικὸν Ἰστρικός, ὡς τὸ Ταῦροι Ταυρικός.

Herodian

ἢ κύρια, ὁπότε τῷ 'ι' παραλήγει συνεσταλμένῳ προπαροξύνεται, ἀνθέρικος, Κύζικος πόλις τῆς Προποντίδος, Ὤρικος πόλις ἐν τῷ Ἰονίῳ κόλπῳ. Ἑκαταῖος λιμένα καλεῖ Ἠπείρου τὸν Ὤρικον ἐν τῇ Εὐρώπῃ «μετὰ δὲ Βουθρωτὸς πόλις, μετὰ δὲ Ὤρικος λιμήν». Ἀπολλόδωρος δὲ πόλιν αὐτὴν οἶδε. λέγεται ἀρσενικῶς, ὡς Πολύβιος ἑβδόμῳ «οἱ δὲ τὸν Ὤρικον κατοικοῦντες, οἳ καὶ πρῶτοι κεῖνται …