Κορυφάσιον - Stephanos Ethnika

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Κορυφάσιον, χωρίον Λακωνικὸν πλησίον Πύλου. Θουκυδίδης τετάρτῃ. τρεῖς δέ εἰσιν αἱ Πύλοι ἐν παροιμίᾳ “ἔστι Πύλος πρὸ Πύλοιο, Πύλος γε μὲν ἔστι καὶ ἄλλος”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κορυφασιεύς καὶ Κορυφάσιος.

Koryphasion: a Laconian locality near Pylos. Thucydides, book 4. There are three Pyloses in the proverb: ‘There is Pylos before Pylos, and there is indeed also another Pylos.’ The ethnonym is ‘Koryphasieus’ and ‘Koryphasios’.

Text Details

Entry	#179
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 377.8 · Billerbeck Κ179
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-20
Word count	29
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Θουκυδίδης (Thucydides)	(5,18,7)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κορυφάσιον	Koryphasjon (Koryphasion) · place · corrected · Q25024356
Πύλος	Pylos · place
Κορυφασιεύς	Koryphasieus (demonym) · people
Κορυφάσιος	Koryphasios (demonym) · people
Κορυφάσιον	place · place · explicit · wikidata: Q25024356 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Koryphasion cape \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0546.jpg
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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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS 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 (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	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 · 3 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χωρίον τό gloss:619c2907ea980b25	locality; point (only in μέσα χωρία: ‘halfway point’) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences

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.