Πύρασος - Stephanos Ethnika

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Πύρασος, πόλις Φθίας. κέκληται δὲ διὰ τὸ τὴν χώραν εἶναι πυροφόρον. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Πυρασαῖος.

Pyrasos: a city of Phthia. It is named because the land bears wheat. The ethnonym Pyrasaios.

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	#287
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 541.3
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-17
Word count	14

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	Matched · medium confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 (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
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.209

char LCS 54 (75.0%) · word LCS 11 (78.6%)

Stephanos

Πύρασος, πόλις Φθίας. κέκληται δὲ διὰ τὸ τὴν χώραν εἶναι πυροφόρον. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Πυρασαῖος.

Herodian

…, Μύλασος υἱὸς Χρυσάορος τοῦ Γλαύκου τοῦ Σισύφου τοῦ Αἰόλου, ἀφ´ οὗ Μύλασα πόλις Καρίας. λέγεται καὶ ἡ πόλις Μύλασος, ὡς Αἰσχύλος ἐν Καρσὶν ἢ Εὐρώπῃ. Νάκρασος πόλις καὶ δῆμος Καρίας. Ἀπολλώνιος δεκάτῳ Καρικῶν. Πρόγασος. Πύρασος πόλις Φθίας. κέκληται δὲ διὰ τὸ τὴν χώραν εἶναι πυροφόρον. Πήδασος πόλις ὑπὲρ τὴν Ἴδην. Τάμασος πόλις Κύπρου. ἐντεῦθέν τινες γράφουσιν« (Od. α 184) »εἰς Τάμασον μετὰ χαλκόν«. ἀπιθάνως. Πάρρασος εἷς τῶν Λυκάονος παίδων. Ἔρασος. σημείωσαι τὸ κερασός φυτὸν ὀξυνόμενον, τὴν δὲ πόλι…