Πτολεμαΐς - Stephanos Ethnika

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Πτολεμαΐς, πόλις Φοινίκης. ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ πρότερον Ἀκή ἀπὸ τῆς ἰάσεως τοῦ γενομένου δήγματος Ἡρακλεῖ ὑπὸ ὄφεως. ὁ πολίτης Πτολεμαΐτης καὶ Πτολεμαιεύς.

Ptolemais: a city of Phoenicia. It was formerly called Ake from the healing of the bite inflicted on Herakles by a snake. The citizen Ptolemaites and Ptolemaieus.

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	#268
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 538.7
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-17
Word count	21

Links

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES 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	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	πολίτης ὁ gloss:1c7dda400d7265cb	citizen 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 1.314

char LCS 50 (40.7%) · word LCS 10 (47.6%)

Stephanos

Πτολεμαΐς, πόλις Φοινίκης. ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ πρότερον Ἀκή ἀπὸ τῆς ἰάσεως τοῦ γενομένου δήγματος Ἡρακλεῖ ὑπὸ ὄφεως. ὁ πολίτης Πτολεμαΐτης καὶ Πτολεμαιεύς.

Herodian

τὸ μέντοι ἀκή ἡ ἡσυχία ὀξύνεται πρὸς ἀντιδιαστολὴν κυρίου. ἔστι δὲ Ἄκη πόλις Φοινίκης ἡ ὕστερον Πτολεμαΐς. ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ Ἄκη ἀπὸ τῆς ἰάσεως τοῦ γενομένου δήγματος Ἡρακλεῖ ὑπὸ ὄφεως. τὰ δὲ εἰς 'κη' λήγοντα δισύλλαβα ἐπὶ πόλεων ἢ χωρῶν βαρύνεται, Πλάκη πόλις Ἑλλησποντία. τὸ δὲ φακῆ περισπᾶται ἐκ συναιρέσεως. Τὰ εἰς 'κη' δισύλλαβα πρὸ τοῦ 'κ' σύμφωνον ἔχοντα μὴ τὸ 'λ' βαρύνεται, κάκκη κόπρος, κάκη δὲ…