Περσέπολις - Stephanos Ethnika

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Περσέπολις, πόλις Περσίδος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Περσεπολίτης. ἔστι δὲ καὶ ὄνομα κύριον υἱοῦ Τηλεμάχου.

Persepolis: a city of Persis. The ethnonym Persepolites. It is also a proper name of a son of Telemachos.

External translation supplied by Brady Kiesling; reported Claude Fable 5.5 translation. Credit: Brady Kiesling and the Stephanos project (Greg Baker, Gabriel Jower, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling). Not individually verified; exact Greek input not supplied.

Text Details

Entry	#120
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 519.6
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-16
Word count	13

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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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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	κύριον τό gloss:80561c77c14cdb57	personal name (AI), literal meaning, proper name (as in τ' ὄνομα κύριον) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC Rule status: In progress	Matched · medium confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.92

char LCS 27 (35.1%) · word LCS 5 (38.5%)

Stephanos

Περσέπολις, πόλις Περσίδος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Περσεπολίτης. ἔστι δὲ καὶ ὄνομα κύριον υἱοῦ Τηλεμάχου.

Herodian

…ις πόλις Αἰγυπτία. Παρθενόπολις Μακεδονίας πόλις ἀπὸ τῶν θυγατέρων Γραστοῦ τοῦ Μυγδόνος υἱοῦ. Ἱεράπολις μεταξὺ Φρυγίας καὶ Λυδίας πόλις, βʹ Κρήτης, γʹ Συρίας, ἣ καὶ Ἱερόπολις διὰ τοῦ 'ο'. Περσέπολις πόλις Περσίδος. ἔστι καὶ ὄνομα κύριον υἱοῦ Τηλεμάχου. Καλλίπολις πολίχνιον Λαμψάκου ἐν τῇ περαίᾳ τῆς Χερρονήσου ἐπ´ ἀκτῆς κείμενον, ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν τῷ περὶ Βιθυνίας. ἔστι καὶ Σικελίας καὶ Καρίας. Νεάπολις πόλις Ἰταλίας· ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη Λιβύης καὶ ἄλλαι. Νικόπολις πόλις Ἠπε…

Herodian 1.24

char LCS 21 (27.3%) · word LCS 5 (38.5%)

Stephanos

Περσέπολις, πόλις Περσίδος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Περσεπολίτης. ἔστι δὲ καὶ ὄνομα κύριον υἱοῦ Τηλεμάχου.

Herodian

…πάρχοι οἷον Παφλαγών Λαιστρυγών «παλαιότατοι μὲν λέγονται ἐν μέρει τινὶ τῆς χώρας (ἤτοι Σικελίας) Κύκλωπες καὶ Λαιστρυγόνες οἰκῆσαι». Θουκυδίδης ἕκτῃ (c. 2), Πηλαγών ὁ οἰκήτωρ τῆς Πηλαγονίας «Πηλαγόνων ἐλατῆρα» Καλλίμαχος (Hymn. in Iov. v. 3). ἔστι δὲ καὶ ὄνομα κύριον «ὃς τέκε Πηλεγόνα» (Il. Φ 159). ἔοικε δὲ γράφεσθαι τὸ ὄνομα ἐθνικὸν κατὰ τὴν δευτέραν συλλαβὴν διὰ τοῦ 'α', τὸ δὲ τοῦ ἥρωος διὰ τοῦ 'ε'. ἀρηγών, λέγω δὲ ἐπὶ τοῦ συμμάχου ἀρσενικῶς «ἀρηγόνος ἡμετέροιο», πλὴν τοῦ καταπύγω…

Herodian 1.80

char LCS 20 (26.0%) · word LCS 5 (38.5%)

Stephanos

Περσέπολις, πόλις Περσίδος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Περσεπολίτης. ἔστι δὲ καὶ ὄνομα κύριον υἱοῦ Τηλεμάχου.

Herodian

… ἐξώλης, προώλης καὶ τὰ παρὰ τὸ ἀρκῶ αὐτάρκης, ποδάρκης—σημαίνει τὸν ταχὺν περὶ τὸν δρόμον ὁ τοῖς ποσὶ τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ ἐπαρκεῖν δυνάμενος πρὸς τὸ ὑπεκφυγεῖν ἢ διώκειν τοὺς πολεμίους. Ὅμηρος »ποδάρκης δῖος Ἀχιλλεύς« (Α 121). ἔστι δὲ καὶ ὄνομα κύριον. ὤφειλε δὲ εἶναι ποδαρκής ὀξυτόνως ὡς ἐπίθετον, ἀλλὰ σεσημείωται τὰ παρὰ τὸ ἀρκῶ. γίνεται δὲ ἡ κλητικὴ πόδαρκες ὡς αὔταρκες· καὶ τὸ οὐδέτερον ποδαρκές ὀξυτόνως, τῶν ἄλλων ὁμοφωνούντων τῇ κλητικῇ τοῦ ἀρσενικοῦ. σεσημείωτ…