Κασταλών - Stephanos Ethnika

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Κασταλών, μεγίστη πόλις Ὠρητανίας, ὡς Ἀρτεμίδωρος τρίτῳ γεωγραφουμένων. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κασταλωνίτης ὡς Ἀσκαλωνίτης Ταρρακωνίτης.

Kastalon: a very large city in Oretania, as Artemidoros says in book 3 of his Geographoumena. The ethnonym is 'Kastalonites' (as in 'Askalonites', 'Tarrakonites').

Text Details

Entry	#118
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 366.8 · Billerbeck Κ118
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-19
Word count	14
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀρτεμίδωρος (Artemidorus (III))	Γεωγραφουμένων · fr. 18 Stiehle

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Καστάλων	Kastalon · place · corrected · Q3355895
Ὠριτανία	Oritania · place
Κασταλωνίτης	Kastalonite (inhabitant of Kastalon) · people
Ἀσκαλωνίτης	Ascalonite (inhabitant of Ascalon) · people
Ταρρακωνίτης	Tarrakonite (inhabitant of Tarrakon) · people
Κασταλών	place · explicit · wikidata: Q1049992 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon (demonym) 'Κασταλωνίτης' (Kastalonites), formed like 'Ἀσκαλωνίτης' (Askalonites) and 'Ταρασσηςίτης' (Tarassenites).

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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 (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 · 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 · 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 1.31

char LCS 61 (57.0%) · word LCS 8 (57.1%)

Stephanos

Κασταλών, μεγίστη πόλις Ὠρητανίας, ὡς Ἀρτεμίδωρος τρίτῳ γεωγραφουμένων. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κασταλωνίτης ὡς Ἀσκαλωνίτης Ταρρακωνίτης.

Herodian

Συρίαν στρατεῦσαι κἀκεῖ παρθένου ἐρασθέντα πόλιν κτίσαι, ἣν ἀφ´ ἑαυτοῦ οὕτως ὠνόμασε. τὰ αὐτὰ καὶ Νικόλαος ἐν τετάρτῃ ἱστοριῶν. Καστάλων μεγίστη πόλις Ὠρητανίας, ὡς Ἀρτεμίδωρος τρίτῳ γεωγραφουμένων. Ἀπόλλων, Κεφάλων, Ἀτιτάλλων. τὸ δὲ ἀμπελών καὶ καμηλών ὡς περιεκτικὰ ὀξύνεται· τὸ Βαβυλών ἀρσενικῶς, ἀφ´ οὗ καὶ ἡ πόλις. ἔστι γὰρ κτίσμα Βαβυλῶνος παιδὸς Βήλου παλαίτατον, οὐχ ὡς Ἡρόδοτος ὑπὸ Σεμιράμιδος· ταύτης γὰρ ἦν…