Σαμάρεια - Stephanos Ethnika

Σαμάρεια OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Σαμάρεια, πόλις τῆς Ἰουδαίας, ἡ μετονομασθεῖσα Νεάπολις καὶ Ἐπαφρόδιτος μὲν τὸ ἐθνικὸν αὐτῆς Σαμαρεύς εἶπε καὶ τὴν πρώτην συλλαβὴν ἐμήκυνεν, ὁ δ´ Ἀντίοχος Σαμαρείτης.

Samareia: a city in Judaea, renamed Neapolis. Epaphroditos gave its ethnonym as 'Samareus' and lengthened the first syllable, while Antiochos gave 'Samareites'.

AI translation — gpt-5.6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#35
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 552.14
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-18
Word count	24
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἐπαφρόδιτος (Epaphroditus)	fr. 34 Braswell = fr. 38 Lünzner
Ἀντίοχος (Antiochus)	FGrHist 29 F 5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Σαμάρεια	Samaria · place
Ἰουδαία	Judaea/Judea · place
Νεάπολις	Neapolis (the renamed city) · place
Σαμαρεύς	Samaritan · people
Σαμαρείτης	Samaritan · people
Σαμάρεια	place · explicit · wikidata: Q1757438 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	the city that was renamed Neapolis (New City)
Unclear Metalinguistic	Epaphroditus gave its ethnic form as Samareus, lengthening the first syllable, whereas Antiochus gave it as Samarites.

Links

Place links	Samaria \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol4_168.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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

Herodian overlaps

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

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.