Σιδήνη - Stephanos Ethnika

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Σιδήνη, πόλις Λυκίας, ὡς Ξάνθος ἐν Λυδιακῶν τετάρτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Σιδηνός ὡς Σωφηνός.

Sidene: Sidene, a city of Lycia, as Xanthus in the fourth book of Lydiaka. The ethnonym 'Sidenos', as 'Sophenos'.

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	#145
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 565.20
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-19
Word count	13

Links

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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) + 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 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 · 1 scan row · 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 · 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 (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 · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.331

char LCS 42 (62.7%) · word LCS 8 (61.5%)

Stephanos

Σιδήνη, πόλις Λυκίας, ὡς Ξάνθος ἐν Λυδιακῶν τετάρτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Σιδηνός ὡς Σωφηνός.

Herodian

…ίας πόλις. Ἀτήνη δῆμος τῆς Ἀντιοχίδος φυλῆς. Διονύσιος Ἀτηνίαν. Ἀτρήνη πόλις.... Φιλοστέφανός φησιν ἀπὸ Δέσου καὶ Ἀτρῶνος καὶ Ἀτρήνης τῶν Ἄργητος τοῦ Κύκλωπος καὶ Φρυγίας νύμφης, προσηγορεῦσθαι. Ξιφήνη χώρα Παλαιστίνης. Σιδήνη πόλις Λυκίας ὡς Ξάνθος ἐν Λυδιακῶν τετάρτῳ. Βαρήνη πόλις Μηδίας ἐγγὺς Ἀγβατάνων. Συήνη πόλις μέση Αἰγύπτου καὶ Αἰθιοπίας ἐπὶ τῷ Νείλῳ, μεθ´ ἣν ὠνόμασται Σῖρις ὁ ποταμός. μέμνηται δὲ πόλεως Παυσανίας (I 33, 4 e. g.), κέκληται δὲ ἀπὸ Συήνου Ἀετοῦ παιδός. Φιδήνη πό…