Ῥών - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ῥών, πόλις τῆς Γανδαρικῆς Σκυθίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ῥώνιος ἢ Ῥωνίτης ὡς Θωνίτης.

Rhon: a city of Gandaric Scythia. The ethnonym Rhonios or Rhonites as 'Thonites'.

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	#64
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 548.15
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-18
Word count	12

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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 (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 · 2 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 (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 · 3 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym 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 1.395

char LCS 28 (46.7%) · word LCS 5 (41.7%)

Stephanos

Ῥών, πόλις τῆς Γανδαρικῆς Σκυθίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ῥώνιος ἢ Ῥωνίτης ὡς Θωνίτης.

Herodian

…ὰ ἄλλα μονοσύλλαβα, φρενός γάρ, τῶν ἄλλων φυλασσόντων τὸ 'η'. οὐκ ἀντιθήσει τις ἡμῖν τὸ παρὰ τῷ Ἑρμησιάνακτι ἐν Λεοντίου αʹ «δερκόμενος πρὸς κῦμα, μόνη δὲ οἱ ἐφλέγετο γλήν. οὐ γὰρ ἐντελές, ἀποκεκομμένον δὲ ἐκ τοῦ γλήνη. Ῥών πόλις τῆς Γανδαρικῆς Σκυθίας, κλών, πρών, Χών ὄνομα ποταμοῦ, ἐξ οὗ καὶ ἡ ἤπειρος Χωνία, παρὰ Ἡροδότῳ ( 9, 93) καὶ Χών τὸ ἐθνικόν, οὗ μέμνηται Στράβων ἐν ἕκτῃ »καὶ Χώνη πόλις ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς, ἀφ´ ἧς οἱ ταύτῃ Χῶνες ἐκλήθησαν«. χθών μόνον θηλυκὸν ἐκ τῶν εἰ…