Παρθυαῖοι - Stephanos Ethnika

Παρθυαῖοι OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Παρθυαῖοι, ἔθνος πάλαι μὲν Σκυθικόν, ὕστερον δὲ φυγὸν ἢ μετοικῆσαν ἐπὶ Μήδους, κληθὲν δὲ οὕτως παρὰ Μήδοις διὰ τὴν φύσιν τῆς αὐτοὺς δεξαμένης γῆς ἑλώδους καὶ ἀγκώδους οὔσης, ἢ διὰ τὴν φυγήν, καθότι οἱ Σκύθαι τοὺς φυγάδας πάρθους καλοῦσι. λέγονται δὲ καὶ Πάρθοι καὶ Πάρθιοι καὶ Παρθυαῖοι καὶ Παρθυαία ἡ χώρα καὶ Παρθυηνή καὶ Παρθυηνός· καὶ Παρθίς χώρα Μακεδονίας.

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Text Details

Entry	#48
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 505.3 · Billerbeck Π48
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-14
Word count	58

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

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