Δαίδαλα - Stephanos Ethnika

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Δαίδαλα, πόλις τῆς Ῥοδίας ἢ χωρίον, Στράβων ιδʹ. ἔστι καὶ ὄρος τῆς Λυκίας τὰ Δαίδαλα. ἡ δὲ πόλις ἀπὸ Δαιδάλου τοῦ Ἰκάρου ἡ ἐν Λυκίᾳ. διά τινος γὰρ ἕλους ἐπορεύετο [διὰ] τοῦ Νίνου ποταμοῦ, καὶ ὑπὸ χερσύδρου δηχθέντα τελευτῆσαι καὶ ἐκεῖ ταφῆναι καὶ κτισθῆναι πόλιν φησὶν Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν Λυκιακοῖς. ἔστι καὶ Ἰνδικῆς. καὶ Κρήτης ἄλλη. ὁ πολίτης Δαιδαλεύς ὡς Σαμόσατα Σαμοσατεύς, καὶ Δαιδαλίς τὸ θηλυκόν.

Daidala: a city in Rhodia, or a locality, Strabo, book 14. There is also a mountain in Lykia, Ta Daidala. The city in Lykia is named after Daidalos, the father of Ikaros. Alexander, in his Lykiaka, says that he was travelling through a certain marsh of the river Ninos, and that, after being bitten by a chersydros, he died and was buried there, and that a city was founded. There is also one in India. And another in Crete. A citizen is a 'Daidaleus', as 'Samosateus' is from Samosata, and the feminine is 'Daidalis'.

Text Details

Entry	#4
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 216.8
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-18
Word count	65
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	ιδ̄ (14,2,2 [C 651,17]; 14,3,1 [C 664,5])
Ἀλέξανδρος (Alexander)	Λυκιακοῖς · FGrHist 273 F 61

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Δαίδαλα	Daidala (Daidalae) · place
Ῥόδος	Rhodes · place
Λυκία	Lycia · place · corrected · Q18927
Δαίδαλος	Daedalus · person
Ἴκαρος	Icarus · person · corrected · Q34041
Νῖνος	Ninus (name of the river) · place
Ἰνδική (Ἰνδία)	India · place · corrected · Q17055962
Κρήτη	Crete · place · corrected · Q4752820
Δαιδαλεύς	Daidaleus (citizen name) · person
Σαμόσατα	Samosata · place
Σαμοσατεύς	Samosataean (demonym) · person
Δαιδαλίς	Daidalis (feminine form) · person
Daidala in Rhodes	place · city or settlement · Rhodes · explicit · wikidata: Q5209083 · candidate
Daidala in Lycia (mountain)	place · mountain · Lycia · explicit · wikidata: Q5209083 · candidate
Daidala in Lycia (city)	place · city · Lycia · explicit · wikidata: Q5209083 · candidate
Daidala in India	place · place · India · explicit · wikidata: Q5209083 · candidate
Daidala in Crete	place · place · Crete · explicit · wikidata: Q5209083 · candidate

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	The city in Lycia is (said to be) from Daedalus, [of] Icarus (i.e., named after Daedalus).
Folk Etymology Narrative	For, Alexander in his Lycian (account) says that while he was crossing through some marsh by the river Ninus he was bitten by a serpent, died and was buried there, and a city was founded there (a narrative explaining the origin of the place).
Unclear Metalinguistic	The (male) inhabitant is called 'Δαιδαλεύς' (just as the inhabitant of Samosata is 'Σαμοσατεύς'), and the feminine is 'Δαιδαλίς' (explanatory note on the ethnicon forms).

Links

Place links	Daedala \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_035.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 (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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 3 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	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an '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
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 · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ὄρος ὁ gloss:184051ff413f789d	mountain, mount (X ὄρος = 'Mount X') Domain: TERRAIN/LANDMASSES	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χωρίον τό gloss:619c2907ea980b25	locality; point (only in μέσα χωρία: ‘halfway point’) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 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.