Σίγγα - Stephanos Ethnika

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Σίγγα, πόλις Λιβύης, ὡς Πολύβιος δωδεκάτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Σιγγαῖος.

Singa: Singa, a city of Libya, as Polybius in the twelfth book. The ethnonym 'Singaios'.

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	#132
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 564.3
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 (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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS 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 · 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	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" 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 · 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

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

Herodian 1.252

char LCS 27 (52.9%) · word LCS 5 (55.6%)

Stephanos

Σίγγα, πόλις Λιβύης, ὡς Πολύβιος δωδεκάτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Σιγγαῖος.

Herodian

…Σάλγα πόλις Μαυριτανίας. Ῥάγα πόλις ἐν Μηδίᾳ κτισθεῖσα ὑπὸ Σελεύκου τοῦ Νικάτορος. Φάλγα κώμη μέση Σελευκείας τῆς Πιερίας καὶ τῆς ἐν Μεσοποταμίᾳ. Ἀρριανὸς ἐν ιʹ Παρθικῶν. ἡ δὲ φάλγα τῇ γλώσσῃ τῇ ἐπιχωρίῳ τὸ μέσον δηλοῖ. Σίγγα πόλις Λιβύης, ὡς Πολύβιος δεκάτῳ. ὀξύνεται δὲ τὸ Αἰγά τῆς Αἰολίδος ἄκρα, ὡς Στράβων »οὕτω γὰρ καὶ τὸ ὄρος ὅλον ὠνομάζετο, ὃ νῦν Κάνην καὶ Κάνας λέγουσι· «λέγεται δὲ παρὰ Αἰγὰν ποταμὸν φερόμενον ἀπὸ τοῦ περὶ τὸ Πύθιον ὄρους. Ἀρτεμίδωρος δὲ Αἴξ εἶπε…