Σάος - Stephanos Ethnika

Σάος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

island

Σάος, ἡ τῶν Σαΐων νῆσος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Σάιος.

Saos: Saos, the island of the Saioi. The ethnonym 'Saios'.

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	#58
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 555.9
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-18
Word count	8

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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 · medium confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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.

Herodian 1.111

char LCS 18 (56.2%) · word LCS 5 (62.5%)

Stephanos

Σάος, ἡ τῶν Σαΐων νῆσος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Σάιος.

Herodian

Τὰ εἰς 'ος' δισύλλαβα τὸ δίχρονον ἔχοντα βραχὺ βαρύνεται, σάος καὶ Σάος ἡ τῶν Σαΐων νῆσος. Ἴος νῆσος τῶν Κυκλάδων ἀπὸ Ἰώνων οἰκησάντων, ἔστι καὶ Λυδίας. Τίος πόλις Παφλαγονίας ἀπὸ Τιέως ἱερέως τὸ γένος Μιλησίου, ὡς Φίλων. Δημοσθένης δ´ ἐν Βιθυνιακοῖς φησι κτιστὴν τῆς πόλεως γενέσθαι Πάταρον ἑλόντα Παφλαγονία…