Κορσίς - Stephanos Ethnika

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island

Κορσίς, νῆσος ἐν τῷ Τυρρηνικῷ πελάγει, ἀπὸ Κόρσης δούλης βουκόλου. λέγεται καὶ Κορσική· τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κορσοί.

Korsis: an island in the Tyrrhenian sea, from Korse, a cowherd’s slave. It is also called Korsike; the ethnonym is 'Korsoi'.

Text Details

Entry	#174
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 376.13 · Billerbeck Κ174
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-20
Word count	16
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κορσίς	Corsica (island) · place
Τυρρηνικὸν πέλαγος	Tyrrhenian Sea · place · corrected · Q38882
Κόρσης	Korses (personal name) · person
Κορσική	Corsica (alternate name) · place
Κορσοί	Corsicans · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	from Kórsēs, a slave/servant of a cowherd (i.e. named after Korses, the slave of a herdsman).

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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 · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 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
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 1.102

char LCS 31 (36.0%) · word LCS 6 (37.5%)

Stephanos

Κορσίς, νῆσος ἐν τῷ Τυρρηνικῷ πελάγει, ἀπὸ Κόρσης δούλης βουκόλου. λέγεται καὶ Κορσική· τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κορσοί.

Herodian

…υἱός, Κρουσίς μοῖρα τῆς Μυγδονίας. Στράβων ἑβδόμῃ. Βροῦσος Ἠμαθίου παῖς Βρουσίς μοῖρα Μακεδονίας. τινὲς γράφουσι διὰ τοῦ 'υ'. Κρής καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς Κρητός γενικῆς Κρῆτις καὶ τροπῇ τοῦ 'τ' εἰς 'σ' Κρησίς. Κόρση δούλη βουκόλος Κορσίς νῆσος ἐν τῷ Τυρρηνικῷ πελάγει. Πισίδης Πισίς πόλις καὶ ὄρος Ἀρμενίας ἢ Σουσιανῆς. Ἀρκασίδης Ἀρκασίς. Γυμνησίς ἀπὸ Γύμνητος γενικῆς τροπῇ τοῦ 'τ' εἰς 'σ'. Μαγνησίς παρὰ Παρθενίῳ. Ἀμνισίς νύμφαι Ἀμνισίδες, Ἀνθεμουσίς λίμνη Μαριανδυνῶν, ἣν Ἀπολλώνιος δ…