Κάπαι - Stephanos Ethnika

Κάπαι OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Κάπαι, πόλις Ἑλλησποντία. Ἀνδροτίων γʹ Ἀτθίδος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καπαῖος ὡς Ναπαῖος.

Kapai: a city in the Hellespont. Androtion, book 3 in his Atthis. The ethnonym is 'Kapaios', as in 'Napaios'.

Text Details

Entry	#65
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 355.16
OCR	gemini-3-flash (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-18
Word count	11
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀνδρότιος (Androtion)	FGrHist 324 F 13
Ἀτθίς (Atthis)	Ἀτθίς · FGrHist 324 F 13

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κάπαι	Kapai (Kapae) · place
Ἑλλησποντία	Hellespontia · place · corrected · Q6514
Καπαῖος	Kapaios (ethnic of Kapai) · people
Ναπαῖος	Napaios (ethnic) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	The ethnicon (demonym) is “Καπαῖος”, formed like “Ναπαῖος”.

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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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative AUTHOR NAME)... + ὡς αὐτός formula:4caae33810f40dfa	Translate as "X... as per X." Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS 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 · 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
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:f22af8012162d222	*Translate as 'as per X, in book Y of his Z'* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS 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 · 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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.338

char LCS 40 (63.5%) · word LCS 7 (63.6%)

Stephanos

Κάπαι, πόλις Ἑλλησποντία. Ἀνδροτίων γʹ Ἀτθίδος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καπαῖος ὡς Ναπαῖος.

Herodian

…ς »Κώπας Εὔτρησίν τε« (Β 502) ἀπὸ Κωπέως τοῦ Πλαταιέως τοῦ Ὀγχηστοῦ τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος. σήπη, λώπη, γύπη, κύπη εἶδος πλοίου· ἔστι καὶ Σικελίας φρούριον Κύπη. Φίλιστος Σικελικῶν ἐνάτῳ. Ῥύπαι πόλις Ἀχαϊκή. λέγεται καὶ Ῥυπαίη. Κάπαι πόλις Ἑλλησποντία. Ἀνδροτίων γʹ Ἀτθίδος. τὸ δὲ τυπή ὀξύνεται καὶ τὸ ῥοπή καὶ τροπή καὶ ὀπή καὶ κλοπή. καὶ ῥιπή. τὸ δὲ Ῥίπη Ἀρκαδικὴ πόλις βαρύνεται εἰς ἰδιότητα »Ῥίπην τε Στρατίην τε« (Β 606). Τὰ εἰς 'πη' δισύλλαβα ἔχοντα τὴν πρὸ τέλους εἰς σύμφωνον καταλήγουσαν …