Σούνιον - Stephanos Ethnika

Σούνιον OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Σούνιον, δῆμος Λεοντίδος φυλῆς. Ὅμηρος δὲ ἄκρον καλεῖ “ἀλλ´ ὅτε Σούνιον ἄκρον”. ὁ δημότης Σουνιεύς ὡς Ἰλιεύς. τὰ τοπικὰ Σουνιόθεν Σούνιόνδε Σουνιοῖ. καὶ τὸ θηλυκὸν Σουνιάς.

Sounion: Sounion, a deme of the Leontid tribe. But Homer calls it a promontory: "but when the Sounion headland". The deme-member 'Sounieus', as 'Ilieus'. The place-forms 'Souniothen', 'Sounionde', Sounioi. And the feminine 'Sounias'.

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	#252
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 582.13
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-20
Word count	27

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	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	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 · 1 occurrence
Gloss	καλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται/ἐκλήθη (ἀπο...) gloss:ef7a95cd709173ed	is/used to be/is/was called/named after (+ ἀπο) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	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 1.358

char LCS 62 (44.9%) · word LCS 12 (46.2%)

Stephanos

Σούνιον, δῆμος Λεοντίδος φυλῆς. Ὅμηρος δὲ ἄκρον καλεῖ “ἀλλ´ ὅτε Σούνιον ἄκρον”. ὁ δημότης Σουνιεύς ὡς Ἰλιεύς. τὰ τοπικὰ Σουνιόθεν Σούνιόνδε Σουνιοῖ. καὶ τὸ θηλυκὸν Σουνιάς.

Herodian

…λίας. Χώριον ἡ πόλις, ἐπὶ γὰρ ὑποκοριστικοῦ παροξύνεται. Δαύνιον πόλις Ἰταλίας. Λυκόφρων (v. 1254) «ὑπὲρ Λακίου Δαυνίου τ´ ᾠκισμένην». Οἴνιον. Σέστιον πόλις ἐν μεσογείᾳ Οἰνωτρῶν. Αἴγιον πόλις Ἀχαΐας, ὡς Εὔδοξος ἐν ἕκτῃ. Σούνιον δῆμος Λεοντίδος φυλῆς. Ὅμηρος δὲ ἄκρον καλεῖ «ἀλλ´ ὅτε Σούνιον ἄκρον» (Od. γ 278). Δώριον πόλις Μεσσηνίας μία τῶν τριῶν, ὧν Ὅμηρος μνημονεύει «καὶ Πτελεὸν καὶ Ἕλος καὶ Δώριον» (Β 594). Πύθιον τὸ πάλαι μεσαίτατον τῆς ἐν Κρήτῃ Γόρτυνος. καὶ Μακεδονίας Πύθιον, ἐν ᾧ καὶ τὰ Πύθια ἐπιτελεῖται.…