Σίπυλος - Stephanos Ethnika

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Σίπυλος, πόλις Φρυγίας. Ἑλλάνικος ἐν Ἱερειῶν πρώτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Σιπυληνός καὶ Σιπυληνή.

Sipylos: Sipylos, a city of Phrygia. Hellanicus in the first book of the Priestesses. The ethnonym 'Sipylenos' and 'Sipylene'.

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	#179
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 572.2
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-20
Word count	12

Links

Place links	Mount Sipylus \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
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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 (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	Χ (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:c22408ee90fd1a1e	*Translate as "X, in book Y of his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	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 1.164

char LCS 44 (62.0%) · word LCS 8 (66.7%)

Stephanos

Σίπυλος, πόλις Φρυγίας. Ἑλλάνικος ἐν Ἱερειῶν πρώτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Σιπυληνός καὶ Σιπυληνή.

Herodian

… προσηγορικοῖς κατὰ τὸν τόνον ἠκολούθησαν. Τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'υλος' τριβράχεα, εἰ ἔχοι ἐν τῇ τρίτῃ συλλαβῇ 'ι', προπαροξύνεται, τὰ δὲ μὴ οὕτως ἔχοντα παροξύνεται, εἰ μὴ εἴη παρώνυμον ἐν ἰσοσυλλάβοις, Τίτυλος, Ἴτυλος τὸ κύριον. Σίπυλος πόλις Φρυγίας· Ἑλλάνικος ἐν Ἱερειῶν πρώτῳ. τὸ μέντοι Χρεμύλος καὶ Κρατύλος παροξύνονται οὐκ ἔχοντα 'ι' ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ. τὸ δὲ σταφυλός παρώνυμόν ἐστι παρὰ τὸ σταφυλή. τὸ δὲ Ἄγυλος κύριον προπαροξύνεται. Τὰ εἰς 'υλος' ὑπερτρισύλλαβα παροξύνεται, εἰ μὴ ἔχοι ἔννοιαν συνθέ…