Σέστιον - Stephanos Ethnika

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Σέστιον, πόλις ἐν μεσογείᾳ Οἰνώτρων. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Σεστιεύς, ὡς τὰ εἰς « ον » οὐδέτερα.

Sestion: Sestion, a city in the interior of the Oenotrians. The ethnonym 'Sestieus', like the neuters in '-on'.

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	#115
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 562.5
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	[definite article] + εἰς + «X» (GREEK LETTER) + [FORM OF ληγών AGREEING WITH ART] formula:06a1dc51166fb9d5	Translate as "word ending in X" Domain: SPELLING & PROSODY Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative BOOK NAME) formula:c795eaabedf9a542	*Translate as "Χ, in his Y"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS 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 · medium 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 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	εἰς + «X» (GREEK LETTER) formula:f06db8d92900ddc7	Translate as "ending in X" Domain: SPELLING & PROSODY 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
Formula	ὡς + X (definite ARTICLE + ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:bcd70ae781e7b205	Translate as "just as 'Y' is from the name 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

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.358

char LCS 30 (46.9%) · word LCS 5 (38.5%)

Stephanos

Σέστιον, πόλις ἐν μεσογείᾳ Οἰνώτρων. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Σεστιεύς, ὡς τὰ εἰς « ον » οὐδέτερα.

Herodian

…ἀπὸ Κουρέως τοῦ Κινύρου παιδός. Ἡρόδοτος πέμπτῃ (c. 113). ἔστι καὶ πόλις Αἰτωλίας. Χώριον ἡ πόλις, ἐπὶ γὰρ ὑποκοριστικοῦ παροξύνεται. Δαύνιον πόλις Ἰταλίας. Λυκόφρων (v. 1254) «ὑπὲρ Λακίου Δαυνίου τ´ ᾠκισμένην». Οἴνιον. Σέστιον πόλις ἐν μεσογείᾳ Οἰνωτρῶν. Αἴγιον πόλις Ἀχαΐας, ὡς Εὔδοξος ἐν ἕκτῃ. Σούνιον δῆμος Λεοντίδος φυλῆς. Ὅμηρος δὲ ἄκρον καλεῖ «ἀλλ´ ὅτε Σούνιον ἄκρον» (Od. γ 278). Δώριον πόλις Μεσσηνίας μία τῶν τριῶν, ὧν Ὅμηρος μνημονεύει «καὶ Πτελεὸν καὶ Ἕλος καὶ Δ…