Πάλμυρα - Stephanos Ethnika

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fortress

Πάλμυρα, φρούριον Συρίας, οὗ μέμνηται Οὐράνιος ἐν Ἀραβικῶν δευτέρῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Παλμυρηνός. οἱ δ´ αὐτοὶ Ἀδριανοπολῖται μετωνομάσθησαν ἐπικτισθείσης τῆς πόλεως ὑπὸ τοῦ αὐτοκράτορος.

Palmyra: a fortress in Syria, of which Ouranios makes mention in book 2 of his Arabika. The ethnonym is 'Palmyrenos'. The same people were renamed 'Hadrianopolitai' after the city was refounded by the emperor.

Text Details

Entry	#6
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 498.6
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-14
Word count	23
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Οὐράνιος (Ouranios)	Ἀραβικά · FGrHist 675 F 11
Ἀραβικά (Arabica (Things Arabian))	Ἀραβικά · FGrHist 675 F 11

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Πάλμυρα	Palmyra · place
Συρία	Syria · place
Παλμυρηνός	Palmyrene · people
Ἁδριανοπολῖται	Hadrianopolitans · people
Ἁδριανούπολις	Hadrianopolis · place
Πάλμυρα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q5747 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	The same people were renamed Hadrianopolites when the city was refounded (or newly established) by the emperor.

Links

Place links	Palmyra \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol4_038.jpg
Review	Open review page

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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 (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	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	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	φρούριον τό gloss:a6e2b628860e5a07	fortress Domain: SETTLEMENTS/STRUCTURES	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.

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.