Κόροντα - Stephanos Ethnika

Κόροντα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Κόροντα, πόλις Ἀκαρνανίας. Θουκυδίδης δευτέρᾳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κοροντεύς, ὡς Σαμόσατα Σαμοσατεύς.

Koronta, a city of Acarnania. Thucydides (mentions it) in Book 2. The ethnic (gentilic) is Koronteus, as (from) Samosata (comes) Samōsateus.

Text Details

Entry	#170
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 375.6 · Billerbeck Κ169
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-20
Word count	11
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v1 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Θουκυδίδης (Thucydides)	β (2,102,1)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κόροντα	Koronta · place
Ἀκαρνανία	Acarnania · place
Κοροντεύς	Koronteus (demonym) · people
Σαμοσάτα	Samosata · place
Σαμοσατεύς	Samosateus (demonym) · people
Κόροντα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q60790577 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	'the ethnic (demonym) Κοροντεύς, like Σαμόσατα : Σαμοσατεύς.' (i.e. the demonym for Κόροντα is Κοροντεύς, comparable to how the demonym for Σαμόσατα is Σαμοσατεύς)

Links

Place links	Korope \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0531.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:5e7f1861601f28d1	*Translate as "X, book Y in his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 (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 (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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
Gloss	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people 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 1.390

char LCS 41 (53.2%) · word LCS 6 (54.5%)

Stephanos

Κόροντα, πόλις Ἀκαρνανίας. Θουκυδίδης δευτέρᾳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κοροντεύς, ὡς Σαμόσατα Σαμοσατεύς.

Herodian

…ίας. Λάδεστον ἢ Λάδεστα μία τῶν Λιβυρνίδων νήσων. Θεόπομπος καʹ Φιλιππικῶν. Δεκίητον πόλις Ἰταλίας. Νήριτον τὸ ὄρος. Σύβοτα νῆσος πρὸς τῷ Ἀμβρακικῷ κόλπῳ καὶ λιμήν. Ἄδροττα χωρίον ἐν Λυδίᾳ παραθαλάσσιον καὶ κατάκρημνον. Κόροντα πόλις Ἀκαρνανίας. Θουκυδίδης δευτέρᾳ (c. 102). τὸ δὲ ἑρπετόν ὀξύνεται καὶ ἐνδυτόν καὶ δελτωτόν ὡς τριγενές. ἔτι καὶ Συρρεντόν πόλις Τυρρηνίας, ἣ καὶ Συρρέντιον, καὶ Πικεντόν. οὕτω γὰρ Φλέγων Πικεντίαν πόλιν Τυρρηνίας καλεῖ. * Τὰ εἰς 'χον' οὐδέτερα ὑπερδισύλλαβα προπαρο…