Σμίλα - Stephanos Ethnika

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Σμίλα, πόλις Θρᾴκης. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ “μετὰ δὲ Σμίλα πόλις”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Σμιλαῖος.

Smila: Smila, a city of Thrace. Hecataeus in Europe: "and after it Smila, a city". The ethnonym 'Smilaios'.

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	#235
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 580.9
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) + 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 (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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.254

char LCS 46 (73.0%) · word LCS 9 (75.0%)

Stephanos

Σμίλα, πόλις Θρᾴκης. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ “μετὰ δὲ Σμίλα πόλις”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Σμιλαῖος.

Herodian

… ἐπὶ τοῦ Πηνειοῦ ἔκτισε πόλιν Φίλαν. ἔστι καὶ νῆσος ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ. Ἡρόδοτος τετάρτῃ (c. 178) »ἐπὶ ποταμὸν τὸν μέγαν, ᾧ ὄνομα Τρίτων ἐστίν, ἐκδιδοῖ δὲ οὗτος ἐς λίμνην μεγάλην Τριτωνίδα. ἐν δὲ αὐτῇ νῆσος ἔνι τῇ οὔνομα Φίλα«. Σμίλα πόλις Θρᾴκης. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ »μετὰ δὲ Σμίλα πόλις«. Πόλα πόλις Ἰλλυρίας. Βῶλα πόλις Ἰταλίας. Νῶλα πόλις Αὐσόνων. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Νώλην δὲ αὐτὴν Πολύβιός φησι. Βάλλα πόλις Μακεδονίας. Τράλλα καὶ Πάλλα Ἀμαζόνες. πάλλα ἡ σφαῖρα. Ἕλλα χωρίον Ἀσίας, Ἀττάλου βασιλέως ἐμπόρι…