Πορδοσελήνη - Stephanos Ethnika

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island

Πορδοσελήνη, νῆσος περὶ τὴν Λέσβον, πόλιν ὁμώνυμον ἔχουσα. ὁ πολίτης Πορδοσεληνίτης. τινὲς δὲ ἐκκλίνοντες τὸ δύσφημον τοῦ ὀνόματος Ποροσελήνην ἐκάλεσαν.

Pordoselene: an island around Lesbos, having a homonymous city. The citizen Pordoselenites. Some, avoiding the ill-sounding name, called it Poroselene.

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	#212
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 533.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-16
Word count	20

Links

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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
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	ὁμωνύμως/ὁμώνυμος -ον gloss:0fbae2a88778c0fa	homonymous, having the same name Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	πολίτης ὁ gloss:1c7dda400d7265cb	citizen Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.