Σίρες - Stephanos Ethnika

Σίρες OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Σίρες, ἔθνος Θρᾴκης ὑπὲρ τοὺς Βυζαντίους, ὡς δέδεικται ἐν τῷ περὶ Νίψων.

Sires: Sires, a people of Thrace beyond the Byzantines, as has been shown in the entry on the Nipsoi.

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	#180
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 572.7
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-20
Word count	12

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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) + 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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.398

char LCS 29 (50.0%) · word LCS 5 (41.7%)

Stephanos

Σίρες, ἔθνος Θρᾴκης ὑπὲρ τοὺς Βυζαντίους, ὡς δέδεικται ἐν τῷ περὶ Νίψων.

Herodian

…μνηται Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἐν Γεωγραφουμένοις καὶ τὸ φθείρ. τὸ δὲ Φθίρ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ Ἐνδυμίωνος διὰ τοῦ 'ι' γράφεται, παρὰ δὲ τοῦτο τὸ ὄρος Καρίας καὶ οἱ κατοικοῦντες Φθῖρες »Φθιρῶν τ´ ὄρος ἀκριτόφυλλον« (Β 868). ὁμοίως καὶ τὸ Σίρ ἔθνος Θρᾴκης ὑπὲρ τοὺς Βυζαντίους. —φώρ ὁ κλέπτης, Νώρ ὄνομα ἔθνους. Σώρ. τὸ δὲ ὦρ περισπᾶται· ἔστι δὲ μόνον θηλυκὸν εἰς 'ωρ' ἐκ τοῦ ὄαρ γενόμενον κατὰ κρᾶσιν τοῦ 'ο' καὶ 'α' εἰς 'ω' ὥσπερ κρείττονα κρείττω· ἡ δὲ εὐθεῖα οὐχ εὕρηται, ἀναπλάττομεν δὲ αὐτὴ…