Σκῦρος - Stephanos Ethnika

Σκῦρος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

island

Σκῦρος, νῆσος, περὶ ἧς Νικόλαος ἐν πέμπτῳ “Σκῦρον δὲ τὸ μὲν παλαιὸν ᾤκουν Πελασγοί τε καὶ Κᾶρες”. οἱ νησιῶται Σκύριοι καὶ Σκυρία αἴξ.

Skyros: Skyros, an island, about which Nicolaus in the fifth book: "Skyros of old was inhabited by Pelasgians and Carians". The islanders Skyrioi, and the 'Skyrian' goat.

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	#231
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 579.16
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-20
Word count	23

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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 (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	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 1.192

char LCS 70 (66.7%) · word LCS 16 (69.6%)

Stephanos

Σκῦρος, νῆσος, περὶ ἧς Νικόλαος ἐν πέμπτῳ “Σκῦρον δὲ τὸ μὲν παλαιὸν ᾤκουν Πελασγοί τε καὶ Κᾶρες”. οἱ νησιῶται Σκύριοι καὶ Σκυρία αἴξ.

Herodian

…λον διὰ τοῦ 'λ' καλεῖ, ἔστι καὶ πόλις Ἰνδίας καὶ Λυδίας καὶ Πισιδίας. Ἀρριανὸς δὲ τὰ Ἄναθα Τύρον καλεῖ. Μύρος ποταμὸς παραρρέων Μύραν πόλιν ὁ καὶ Μύρων. εἰ δὲ ἔχοι ἐκτεταμένον, κύρια μὲν ὄντα βαρύνεται, Κῦρος, Σκῦρος, ἡ νῆσος, περὶ ἧς Νικόλαος ἐν πέμπτῳ «Σκῦρον δὲ τὸ μὲν παλαιὸν ᾤκουν Πελασγοί τε καὶ Κᾶρες». Σφῦρος, Σῦρος νῆσος Ἰωνική, ὡς Στράβων δεκάτῃ, ἣν ὁ ποιητὴς Συρίην καλεῖ ἐν Ὀδυσσείᾳ (o 403) ἥτις μηκύνει τὴν πρώτην. μὴ οὕτω δέ, ὀξύνεται, πυρός ὁ σῖτος, τυρός, ξυρός. Τὰ εἰς 'ρος' μονογενῆ δισύλλαβα παραληγόμενα τῷ …