Πολίειον - Stephanos Ethnika

Πολίειον OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Πολίειον, πόλις Ἰταλίας, ἡ πρότερον Σῖρις καλουμένη. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Πολιειεύς, ὡς τοῦ Σίγειον τὸ Σιγειεύς.

Polieion: a city of Italy, formerly called Siris. The ethnonym Polieieus, as of 'Sigeion' 'Sigeieus'.

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	#197
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 531.11
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 · medium 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES 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
Formula	ὡς + X (definite ARTICLE + ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:bcd70ae781e7b205	Translate as "just as 'Y' is from the name X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:7163e35f4bd326d9	Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.368

char LCS 29 (34.9%) · word LCS 5 (33.3%)

Stephanos

Πολίειον, πόλις Ἰταλίας, ἡ πρότερον Σῖρις καλουμένη. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Πολιειεύς, ὡς τοῦ Σίγειον τὸ Σιγειεύς.

Herodian

… ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ. λεόντιον, δρακόντιον, ἀκόντιον. ἔστι καὶ Ἀκόντιον πόλις Ἀρκαδίας ἀπὸ Ἀκοντίου τοῦ Λυκάονος. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα Εὐβοίας, ὡς Ξεναγόρας καὶ Ἀνδροτίων ὀγδόῃ. ὀδόντιον ἡ βοτάνη καὶ τὸ τοῦ στόματος. γερόντιον, Μεταπόντιον πόλις Ἰταλίας ἡ πρότερον Σῖρις ἀπὸ Μετάβου τοῦ Σισύφου τοῦ Αἰόλου. τὸν γὰρ Μετάποντον οἱ βάρβαροι Μέταβον ἔλεγον. Ἱερόντιον ἡ πόλις. Δυσπόντιον πόλις Πισαίας, ἀπὸ Δυσπόντου τοῦ Πέλοπος, παρὰ τὴν ὁδὸν τὴν ἐξ Ἤλιδος εἰς Ὀλυμπίαν. Μαμέρτιον πόλις Ἰταλία…