Σίγαθα - Stephanos Ethnika

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Σίγαθα, πόλις Λιβύης, ὡς Στράβων ἑπτακαιδεκάτῃ. ὁ πολίτης Σιγαθεύς.

Sigatha: Sigatha, a city of Libya, as Strabo in the seventeenth book. The citizen 'Sigatheus'.

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	#131
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 564.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-19
Word count	9

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an 'X'" 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 (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	πολίτης ὁ gloss:1c7dda400d7265cb	citizen 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 1.380

char LCS 39 (70.9%) · word LCS 6 (66.7%)

Stephanos

Σίγαθα, πόλις Λιβύης, ὡς Στράβων ἑπτακαιδεκάτῃ. ὁ πολίτης Σιγαθεύς.

Herodian

…υμος καὶ Διόδωρος, Διονύσιος ἀρσενικῶς, Εὐφορίων θηλυκῶς. ἔστι δὲ δῆμος τῆς Αἰαντίδος φυλῆς. Δούμαθα πόλις Ἀραβίας. Κάναθα πόλις πρὸς τῇ Βόστρᾳ Ἀραβίας. Ὄραθα πόλις τῆς ἐν Τίγρητι Μεσήνης. Ἀρριανὸς Παρθικῶν ἑκκαιδεκάτῳ. Σίγαθα πόλις Λιβύης, ὡς Στράβων ἑπτακαιδεκάτῃ. Ἄμαθα τῆς Ἀραβίας χωρίον. κέκληται δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς ἄμμου. φασὶ γὰρ τὸ πολὺ τῆς Ἀραβίας ὑπὸ τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς πάλαι κατακλύζεσθαι. * Τὰ εἰς 'κον' κύρια βαρύνεται, Μάζακα πόλις Καππαδοκίας ἡ νῦν Καισάρεια, Μάσσακα πόλις Ἰνδῶν, Ἀρρι…