Στῆλαι - Stephanos Ethnika

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Στῆλαι, πόλις Κρήτης πλησίον Παραισοῦ καὶ Ῥιθύμνης. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Στηλαῖος, ὡς Λάμπη Λαμπαῖος. ἀλλὰ καὶ Στηλίτης, ὡς παρὰ τὸ ἀγαλμαϊστὸν λίθον, ἀφ´ οὗ καὶ στηλιτεύω.

Stelai: Stelai, a city of Crete near Paraisos and Rhithymna. The ethnonym 'Stelaios', as 'Lampe' 'Lampaios'. But also 'Stelites', as from the stone made into a statue, from which also 'steliteuo'.

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	#272
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 585.12
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-21
Word count	26

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 (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 · 2 occurrences
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	X... πλησίον + Y. (genitive) formula:3d243d130e764a8b	Translate as "X... near 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
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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.318

char LCS 43 (33.1%) · word LCS 7 (28.0%)

Stephanos

Στῆλαι, πόλις Κρήτης πλησίον Παραισοῦ καὶ Ῥιθύμνης. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Στηλαῖος, ὡς Λάμπη Λαμπαῖος. ἀλλὰ καὶ Στηλίτης, ὡς παρὰ τὸ ἀγαλμαϊστὸν λίθον, ἀφ´ οὗ καὶ στηλιτεύω.

Herodian

…ης. εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ Ἁλαί πόλισμα Βοιωτίας. Παυσανίας ἐνάτῳ ( 24, 5). καὶ τῆς Κιλικίας δὲ πόλις. τὸ δὲ γαλῆ περισπᾶται ἀπὸ συναιρέσεως. Τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'ηλη' δισύλλαβα βαρύνεται, εἰ μὴ ἀπὸ δασέος ἄρχοιτο συμφώνου, στήλη· ἔστι καὶ Στῆλαι πόλις Κρήτης πλησίον Παραισοῦ καὶ Ῥιθύμνης. μήλη, κήλη, Πήλη μικρὰ νῆσος, μεθ´ ὧν καὶ ἴλη ἄθροισις, τὸ δὲ χηλή καὶ θηλή ὀξύνεται ὡς ἀπὸ δασέος ἀρχόμενα.