Πυραμίδες - Stephanos Ethnika

Πυραμίδες OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Πυραμίδες, ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ, κτίσμα ... εἰς ὃ λέγεται ἀνηλωκέναι κρομμύων καὶ σκορόδων καὶ τυροῦ τάλαντα μύρια πεντακόσια. ὠνομάσθησαν δὲ πυραμίδες ἀπὸ τῶν πυρῶν, οὓς ἐκεῖ συναγαγὼν ὁ βασιλεὺς ἔνδειαν ἐποίησε σίτου κατὰ τὴν Αἴγυπτον.

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Text Details

Entry	#284
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 540.14
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-17
Word count	33

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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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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)... + 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 · 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.94

char LCS 92 (49.5%) · word LCS 17 (51.5%)

Stephanos

Πυραμίδες, ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ, κτίσμα ... εἰς ὃ λέγεται ἀνηλωκέναι κρομμύων καὶ σκορόδων καὶ τυροῦ τάλαντα μύρια πεντακόσια. ὠνομάσθησαν δὲ πυραμίδες ἀπὸ τῶν πυρῶν, οὓς ἐκεῖ συναγαγὼν ὁ βασιλεὺς ἔνδειαν ἐποίησε σίτου κατὰ τὴν Αἴγυπτον.

Herodian

…ις πόλις Αἰγύπτου. Ἡρόδοτος (II 91) «ἔστι καὶ Χέμμις πόλις μεγάλη νομοῦ τοῦ Θηβαϊκοῦ, ἐγγὺς τῆς Νέης πόλιος». φησὶ δ´ ὁ αὐτὸς καὶ νῆσον εἶναι Χέμμιν ἐν αὐτῇ. Τὰ εἰς 'μις' προσηγορικὰ ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβὰς ὀξύνεται, πυραμίς— ὠνομάσθησαν δὲ πυραμίδες ἀπὸ τῶν πυρῶν, οὓς ἐκεῖ συναγαγὼν ὁ βασιλεὺς ἔνδειαν ἐποίησε σίτου κατὰ τὴν Αἴγυπτον—σησαμίς, καλαμίς, πλοκαμίς, κεραμίς. τὰ δὲ κύρια βαρύνεται, Ἄρτεμις, ὃ Δωριεῖς διὰ τοῦ 'α' προφέρονται Ἄρταμις, Σεμίραμις, Χρυσόθεμις, Θύαμις κώμη ὑπὸ Σεμιράμιδος κτισθεῖσα παρὰ τὴν Ἀραχωσίαν, Ψιττάχεμμις κώμη τῆς Αἰγυπ…