Κάψα - Stephanos Ethnika

Κάψα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Κάψα, πόλις Χαλκιδικῆς χώρας κατὰ Παλλήνην, ὁμοροῦσα τῷ Θερμαίῳ κόλπῳ. ὁ πολίτης Καψαῖος.

Kapsa: a city in the region of Chalkidike, by Pallene, bordering on the Thermaic gulf. A citizen is a 'Kapsaios'.

Text Details

Entry	#143
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 370.18 · Billerbeck Κ143
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-19
Word count	13
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κάψα	Kapsa (Capsa) · place · corrected · Q17623970
Χαλκιδική	Chalcidice (Chalkidike) · place · corrected · Q204728
Παλλήνη	Pallene · place · corrected · Q2625955
Θερμαῖος	Thermaic (as in Thermaic Gulf) · place · corrected · Q913418
Καψαῖος	Kapsaean (citizen of Kapsa) · people
Κάψα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q17623970 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Campsa
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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 · high 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	κόλπος ὁ gloss:ba395d16c244385c	gulf, bay Domain: WATER BODIES/COASTS 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
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 · 3 scan rows · 3 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.251

char LCS 58 (79.5%) · word LCS 10 (76.9%)

Stephanos

Κάψα, πόλις Χαλκιδικῆς χώρας κατὰ Παλλήνην, ὁμοροῦσα τῷ Θερμαίῳ κόλπῳ. ὁ πολίτης Καψαῖος.

Herodian

…αργοσύνην« (fr. 87 Bergk). δόξα, Φρίξα πόλις Τριφυλίας ἀπὸ Φρίξου, ἐπ´ ὄρους ὑψηλοῦ πρὸς ἕω τῆς Λεπρεατικῆς. Φερεκύδης δὲ Ἀρκαδίας αὐτὴν γράφει. Λίξα πόλις Λιβύης ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν πρώτῳ Λιβυκῶν, ἀπὸ Λίξου ποταμοῦ. δίψα, Κάψα πόλις Χαλκιδικῆς χώρας κατὰ Παλλήνην ὁμοροῦσα τῷ Θερμαίῳ κόλπῳ. Σάμψα κώμη τῆς Ἀραβίας. σάμψα δὲ παρὰ τοῖς Ἄραψι ὁ ἥλιος. Σκέμψα πόλις Θρᾴκης. Στρέψα πόλις Μακεδονίας. Τὰ δὲ ὑπερδισύλλαβα προπαροξύνεται, ὄρυζα, τράπεζα· ἔστι καὶ πόλις Ἀρκαδίας ἐγγὺς Τρικολώνων. ἀργυρόπεζα, τετράπεζ…