Σπάρτωλος - Stephanos Ethnika

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Σπάρτωλος, πόλις Μακεδονίας, ὡς Θουκυδίδης ἐν δευτέρᾳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Σπαρτώλιος.

Spartolos: Spartolos, a city of Macedonia, as Thucydides in the second book. The ethnonym 'Spartolios'.

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	#260
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 584.3
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-21
Word count	10

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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 · medium 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) + 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
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 1.165

char LCS 37 (57.8%) · word LCS 6 (60.0%)

Stephanos

Σπάρτωλος, πόλις Μακεδονίας, ὡς Θουκυδίδης ἐν δευτέρᾳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Σπαρτώλιος.

Herodian

…μένος. Ἄρρωλος ὄνομα πόλεως. Καστωλὸς δὲ—ἦν δὲ πόλις ἐν Λυδίᾳ—ἐκλήθη δὲ ὅτι Καστωλοὺς τοὺς Δωριεῖς οἱ Λυδοί φασιν—ὀξύνεται ἔχον δύο σύμφωνα, ὧν τὸ ἓν 'τ' ἐστίν, ὡς καὶ τὸ Πακτωλός. τὸ μέντοι Σπάρτωλος βαρύνεται. ἔστι δὲ πόλις Μακεδονίας, ὡς Θουκυδίδης ἐν δευτέρᾳ (c. 79). τὰ γὰρ δύο σύμφωνα οὐκ εἰσὶν ἐν συλλήψει, ἀλλ´ ἐν διαστάσει. τὸ δὲ Αἰτωλός τριγενές. Τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'ωλος' ὑπερδισύλλαβα ἁπλᾶ ῥηματικὰ ἔχοντα τὴν τρίτην μακρὰν ὀξύνεται, φειδωλός, αἰτωλός τὸ ἐπίθετον παρὰ τὸ ῥῆμα τὸ αἰτεῖν, ἁ…