Κασταναία - Stephanos Ethnika

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Κασταναία, [πόλις Θετταλίας.] Εὔδοξος δὲ διὰ τοῦ « θ » φησί. [Λυκόφρων] “καὶ Κασταναίαν ἀκτέριστον ἐν πέτραις”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κασταναῖος. ἔστι καὶ Καστανία διὰ τοῦ « ι » πόλις πλησίον Τάραντος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καστανιάτης.

Kastanaia: [a city in Thessaly.] Eudoxos says it with 'θ'. [Lykophron:] 'and Kastanaia, unburied among rocks.' The ethnonym is 'Kastanaios'. There is also Kastania, with 'ι', a city near Taras. The ethnonym is 'Kastaniates'.

Text Details

Entry	#119
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 366.11
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-19
Word count	25
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Εὔδοξος (Eudoxus)	fr. 356 Lasserre
Λυκοφρῶν (Lycophron)	Lyc. 907
Lasserre (Lasserre (editor))	fr. 356 Lasserre

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κασταναία	Kastanaia (Castanaea) · place · corrected · Q16544546
Κασταναῖος	Kastanaean (demonym) · people
Καστανία	Kastania · place
Τάρας	Taras (Tarentum/Taranto) · place · corrected · Q3981082
Καστανιάτης	Kastaniates (demonym) · people
Κασταναία	place · explicit · wikidata: Q16544546 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Casthanaea \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0320.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 · 2 scan rows · 4 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	X... πλησίον + Y. (genitive) formula:3d243d130e764a8b	Translate as "X... near 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 · 4 occurrences
Gloss	ἀκτή ἡ gloss:debf8cab78f25544	headland, point Domain: WATER BODIES/COASTS	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences

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.