Δάλμιον - Stephanos Ethnika

Δάλμιον OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Δάλμιον, πόλις Δαλματίας μεταξὺ Ἰλλυρίας καὶ Ἰταλίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ὅμοιον ἢ Δαλμιεύς. “ἴδιον δὲ τῶν Δαλματέων τὸ διὰ ὀκταετηρίδος τῆς χώρας ἀναδασμὸν ποιεῖσθαι”. Ἀππιανὸς δὲ τὴν πόλιν Δελμίνιον καλεῖ, Κουάδρατος δὲ Δέλμινον. φασὶ δὲ αὐτοὺς καὶ Δαλμάτας.

Dalmion: a city in Dalmatia between Illyria and Italy. The ethnonym is the same, or 'Dalmieus'. 'A peculiarity of the Dalmateis is that they make a redistribution of the territory every eight-year period.' Appian calls the city 'Delminion', and Quadratus 'Delminon'. They say that they are also 'Dalmatai'.

Text Details

Entry	#8
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 216.27
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-18
Word count	37
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	Str. 7,5,5 [C 315,19]
Ἀππιανός (Appian)	Ill. · Ill. 32
Κουάδράτος (Quadratus)	FGrHist 97 F 23

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Δάλμιον	Dalmion (city) · place · corrected · Q563283
Δαλματία	Dalmatia · place
Ἰλλυρία	Illyria · place · corrected · Q32047
Ἰταλία	Italy · place
Δαλμιεύς	Dalmieus (ethnic name) · people
Δαλμάται	Dalmatans · people
Δελμίνιον	Delminium (city) · place · corrected · Q1255537
Δέλμινον	Delminium (variant) · place
Δαλμάται	Dalmatans · people
Δάλμιον / Δελμίνιον / Δέλμινον	place · city · Dalmatia (between Illyria and Italy) · explicit · unresolved

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	The ethnic (demonym) is similarly 'Δαλμιεύς' (Dalmiēus).
Unclear Metalinguistic	Appian calls the city 'Δελμίνιον' (Delminion), Quadratus 'Δέλμινον' (Delminon) — variant forms of the place-name.
Unclear Metalinguistic	They (the people) are also called 'Δαλμάτας' (Dalmatae).

Links

Place links	Delminium \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_037.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 · 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 · 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 · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	καλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται/ἐκλήθη (ἀπο...) gloss:ef7a95cd709173ed	is/used to be/is/was called/named after (+ ἀπο) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 3 scan rows · 3 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.