Δακία - Stephanos Ethnika

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Δακία, χώρα πλησίον Βορυσθένους. οἱ Δᾶκοι, οὓς καλοῦμεν Δάους “Γέτας γὰρ τοὺς πρὸς τὸν Πόντον κεκλιμένους καὶ τὴν ἕω, Δάους δὲ τοὺς πρὸς τἀναντία πρὸς Γερμανίαν καὶ τὰς τοῦ Ἴστρου πηγάς”. καὶ παρ´ Ἀττικοῖς δὲ τὰ τῶν οἰκετῶν ὀνόματα Δᾶοι καὶ Γέται.

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Text Details

Entry	#7
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 216.22 · Billerbeck Δ7
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-18
Word count	43
Translation status	Most differences are mechanical (punctuation, quotation marks, diacritic/orthographic variants). The main substantive difference is that Billerbeck supplies the participle οἰκοῦντες (in editorial brackets) which Meineke omits; that addition changes the descriptive detail of the phrase.

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	Str. 7,3,12 [C 304,18]

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Δακία	Dacia · place
Βορυσθένης	Borysthenes (Dnieper) · place
Δάκοι	Dacians · people
Δάοι	Daoi · people
Γέται	Getae · people
Πόντος	Pontus (the Black Sea) · place
Γερμανία	Germany · place
Ἴστρος	Ister (Danube) · place
Ἀττικοί	Atticans (Athenians/people of Attica) · people
Γέται	Getae · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	the inhabitants called 'Δακοί' (Dacoi), whom we call 'Δάους' (Dáoi).
Unclear Metalinguistic	For those inclined toward the Pontus and the east are 'Getae', and 'Dáous' those toward the opposite side toward Germania and the sources of the Ister.
Unclear Metalinguistic	And among the Attic writers the names of the inhabitants are 'Δᾶοι' (Dáoi) and 'Γέται' (Getai).

Links

Place links	Dacia \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
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Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.108

char LCS 89 (45.2%) · word LCS 20 (47.6%)

Stephanos

Δακία, χώρα πλησίον Βορυσθένους. οἱ Δᾶκοι, οὓς καλοῦμεν Δάους “Γέτας γὰρ τοὺς πρὸς τὸν Πόντον κεκλιμένους καὶ τὴν ἕω, Δάους δὲ τοὺς πρὸς τἀναντία πρὸς Γερμανίαν καὶ τὰς τοῦ Ἴστρου πηγάς”. καὶ παρ´ Ἀττικοῖς δὲ τὰ τῶν οἰκετῶν ὀνόματα Δᾶοι καὶ Γέται.

Herodian

…άφον τὴν ἐν Κύπρῳ πόλιν, ἀλλὰ παρὰ τὸ ἀπαφίσκειν· καὶ παρ´ Ἡσιόδῳ «ῥεῖά τέ μιν μαυροῦσι θεοί». ἡ τοῦ μακροῦ 'α' ἀφαίρεσις σπάνιος· καὶ ἴσως ἐν τῷ «βάλε δὴ βάλε κηρύλος εἴην» (Alcm. fr. 21). τὸ Δᾶος ὡς κύριον βαρύνεται. «Γέτας γὰρ τοὺς πρὸς τὸν Πόντον κεκλιμένους καὶ τὴν ἕω, Δάους δὲ τοὺς πρὸς τἀναντία πρὸς Γερμανίαν καὶ τὰς τοῦ

Herodian 1.109

char LCS 58 (29.4%) · word LCS 13 (31.0%)

Stephanos

Δακία, χώρα πλησίον Βορυσθένους. οἱ Δᾶκοι, οὓς καλοῦμεν Δάους “Γέτας γὰρ τοὺς πρὸς τὸν Πόντον κεκλιμένους καὶ τὴν ἕω, Δάους δὲ τοὺς πρὸς τἀναντία πρὸς Γερμανίαν καὶ τὰς τοῦ Ἴστρου πηγάς”. καὶ παρ´ Ἀττικοῖς δὲ τὰ τῶν οἰκετῶν ὀνόματα Δᾶοι καὶ Γέται.

Herodian

Ἴστρου πηγάς». καὶ παρ´ Ἀττικοῖς δὲ τὰ τῶν οἰκετῶν ὀνόματα Δᾶοι καὶ Γέται. λέγεται δὲ καὶ Δᾶκος. ἔτι καὶ Λᾶος ποταμὸς καὶ πόλις Λευκανίας. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν τῷ περὶ γῆς δευτέρῳ. καὶ Λᾶοι οἱ οἰκοῦντες Λᾶν πόλιν Λακωνικῆς. Χνᾶος ἔθνος. καὶ τὸ πρᾷος δὲ ἐπίθετον. τὸ μέντοι ταός παρ´ Ἀλεξανδρεῦσιν ἀν…