Σέμφη - Stephanos Ethnika

Σέμφη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Σέμφη, ὡς Τύμφη, πόλις τῆς κατὰ Εὐφράτην Ἀραβίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Σεμφαῖος καὶ Σεμφηνός.

Semphe: Semphe, as 'Tymphe', a city of Arabia along the Euphrates. The ethnonym 'Semphaios' and 'Semphenos'.

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	#109
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 561.7
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-19
Word count	13

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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 (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES 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	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
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS 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

Herodian overlaps

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Herodian 1.345

char LCS 31 (46.3%) · word LCS 5 (38.5%)

Stephanos

Σέμφη, ὡς Τύμφη, πόλις τῆς κατὰ Εὐφράτην Ἀραβίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Σεμφαῖος καὶ Σεμφηνός.

Herodian

…. Ἄμφη· οὕτως ἐκαλεῖτο Κάσος, μία τῶν Κυκλάδων, Σάμφη πόλις Φοινίκης καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα. * Τὰ εἰς 'φη' δισύλλαβα ἔχοντα πρὸ τοῦ 'φ' σύμφωνον, ὁπότε μὴ ἔχοι πρὸ τέλους 'ο', βαρύνεται, νύμφη, σίλφη, ἥν τινες τίλφην λέγουσι, Σέμφη πόλις τῆς κατὰ Εὐφράτην Ἀραβίας. Τύμφη ὄρος Θεσπρωτικόν. Σκίρφαι πόλις Φωκική. τὸ δὲ ὀμφή, μορφή πρὸ τέλους ἔχουσιν 'ο'. Τὰ εἰς 'φη' παραληγόμενα τῷ 'ο' ἢ τῷ 'υ' συνεσταλμένῳ ὀξύνεται, ὀμφή, μομφή, μορφή, τροφή, ὀροφή, γλυφή, δρυφή, κορυφή. Τὰ εἰς 'φη' π…