Πυθώ - Stephanos Ethnika

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Πυθώ, ἡ τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος πόλις. “Πυθοῖ ἐν ἠγαθέῃ”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Πυθῷος, ὡς Λητώ Λητῷος, καὶ Πύθιος καὶ Πυθία καὶ Πυθιάς ὡς Ἑλικωνιάς, καὶ Πύθιον, καὶ πυθαΐζειν, ἀπὸ τοῦ Πυθαῖος διαλύσεως γενομένης, καὶ πυθαϊστής. καὶ τὸ τοπικὸν Πυθῶθεν διὰ τοῦ « ω » ὡς Κριῶθεν, καὶ μετὰ συστολῆς Πυθόθεν ὡς Λεσβόθεν. καὶ Πυθοῖ τὸ ἐν τόπῳ. καὶ παρὰ τὴν Πυθώ Πυθεύς ὡς Ἐνυώ Ἐνυεύς, καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς Πυθῆος γενικῆς ἰωνικῆς Πύθιος, ἐξ ἧς τὸ Πυθήιος κτητικὸν καὶ Πυθαιεύς καὶ Πυθαεύς ὡς Κρηταεύς.

Pytho: the city of Apollo. "in most holy Pytho". The ethnonym Pythoos, as 'Leto' 'Letoos', and Pythios and Pythia and Pythias as 'Helikonias', and Pythion, and 'pythaizein', from 'Pythaios' with resolution, and 'pythaistes'. And the locative Pythothen with 'o' as 'Kriothen', and with shortening Pythothen as 'Lesbothen'. And Pythoi for the in the place. And from Pytho Pytheus as 'Enyo' 'Enyeus', and from the Ionic genitive 'Pytheos' Pythios, from which the possessive Pytheios and Pythaieus and Pythaeus as 'Kretaeus'.

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	#277
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 539.10
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-17
Word count	80

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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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 4 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... + πρός + Y (dative) formula:1a524ea80fe79519	Translate as "X... near Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	καί + X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + Y (nominative PROPER NOUN) formula:0af867b3dd6df580	Translate as "Y is also 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 2 occurrences
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 · 2 scan rows · 3 occurrences
Gloss	διάλυσις ἡ gloss:fcf0f054fb167930	separation, hiatus Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC 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
Gloss	κτητικόν τό gloss:80c7f336a009c2c3	possessive Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	Matched · medium confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	τοπικά τά gloss:dc551500540a4364	locative term Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	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 1.501

char LCS 58 (15.9%) · word LCS 13 (16.5%)

Stephanos

…ώ, ἡ τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος πόλις. “Πυθοῖ ἐν ἠγαθέῃ”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Πυθῷος, ὡς Λητώ Λητῷος, καὶ Πύθιος καὶ Πυθία καὶ Πυθιάς ὡς Ἑλικωνιάς, καὶ Πύθιον, καὶ πυθαΐζειν, ἀπὸ τοῦ Πυθαῖος διαλύσεως γενομένης, καὶ πυθαϊστής. καὶ τὸ τοπικὸν Πυθῶθεν διὰ τοῦ « ω » ὡς Κριῶθεν, καὶ μετὰ συστολῆς Πυθόθεν ὡς Λεσβόθεν. καὶ Πυθοῖ τὸ ἐν τόπῳ. καὶ παρὰ τὴν Πυθώ Πυθεύς ὡς Ἐνυώ Ἐνυεύς, καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς Πυθῆος γενικῆς ἰωνικῆς Πύθιος, ἐξ ἧς τὸ Πυθήιος κτητικὸν καὶ Πυθαιεύς καὶ Πυθαεύς ὡς Κρηταεύς.

Herodian

διὰ τοῦτο ἀπὸ μὲν τοῦ ἕως βαρυτόνου τὸ ἕωθεν, ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ ἠώς ὀξυτονουμένου ἠῶθεν προπερισπᾶται ὡς ἀπὸ τοῦ Πυθώ Πυθῶθεν διὰ τοῦ 'ω' ὡς Κριῶθεν καὶ μετὰ συστολῆς Πυθόθεν ὡς Λεσβόθεν καὶ Θριώ ὄνομα δήμου Ἀττικοῦ Θριῶθεν, μεθ´ ὧν τηλῶθεν ποιητικῶς ἐκτεταμένον. παρὰ τὸ ἄνευ ἄνευθεν φυλάττει τοῦ πρωτοτύπου τὸν τόνον. ὁμοίως ἄτερ ἄτερθεν. τὸ ἐντεῦθεν προπερισπᾶται παρὰ τὸ ἐνταῦθα, καὶ παρὰ τὸ ἐκεῖ περισπώμε…