Σαβαί - Stephanos Ethnika

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Σαβαί, πόλις μεγάλη πλησίον τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης καὶ φρούριον. τὸ ἐθνικὸν τῆς πόλεως καὶ τοῦ φρουρίου Σαβαῖοι καὶ θηλυκῶς Σαβαία. καὶ τὸ κτητικὸν Σαβαϊτικόν, ὡς ἀπὸ τοῦ Σπάρτης Σπαρτιακόν.

Sabai: a large city near the Red Sea, and a fortress. The ethnonym of the city and the fortress is 'Sabaioi', and in the feminine 'Sabaia'. The possessive adjective is 'Sabaitikon', as 'Spartiakon' is from 'Spartes'.

Text Details

Entry	#1
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 548.20
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-18
Word count	29
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Σαβαί	Sabae · place
Ἐρυθρὰ θάλασσα	Red Sea · place
Σαβαῖοι	Sabaeans · people
Σαβαία	Sabaean (feminine) · other
Σαβαϊτικόν	Sabaean (adjectival) · other
Σπάρτη	Sparta · place
Σπαρτιατικός	Spartan · other
Σαβαί	place · explicit · wikidata: Q940785 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	as in the case of ‘Spartiatic’ from ‘Sparta’

Links

Place links	Sabaeans \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol4_158.jpg
Review	Open review page

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 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 (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... πλησίον + Y. (genitive) formula:3d243d130e764a8b	Translate as "X... near 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	φρούριον τό gloss:a6e2b628860e5a07	fortress Domain: SETTLEMENTS/STRUCTURES	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 1.308

char LCS 41 (26.5%) · word LCS 7 (24.1%)

Stephanos

Σαβαί, πόλις μεγάλη πλησίον τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης καὶ φρούριον. τὸ ἐθνικὸν τῆς πόλεως καὶ τοῦ φρουρίου Σαβαῖοι καὶ θηλυκῶς Σαβαία. καὶ τὸ κτητικὸν Σαβαϊτικόν, ὡς ἀπὸ τοῦ Σπάρτης Σπαρτιακόν.

Herodian

… καὶ καλέσαι ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐπὶ πέτρας οἰκεῖσθαι· τάβαν γὰρ τὴν πέτραν Ἕλληνες ἑρμηνεύουσιν. ἔνιοι ἀπὸ Ταβηνοῦ Ἀργείου. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη πόλις Καρίας Τάβαι. καὶ τρίτη τῆς Περαίας, ἣν Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν τῷ περὶ Συρίας ἑρμηνεύει ἀγαθήν. Σάβαι πόλις μεγάλη πλησίον τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης. Λάβαι πόλις Χαττηνίας. Πολύβιος τρισκαιδεκάτῳ. βλάβη. ὀξύνεται δὲ ταῦτα, λαβή, τριβή ῥηματικὰ ὄντα.