Τάβαι - Stephanos Ethnika

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Τάβαι, πόλις Λυδίας, περὶ ὧν ὁ χρησμός φησι πρὸς Πισίδας “ἄστυ Ταβῶν ἐρικυδὲς ἐλευθερὸν οἰκίζεσθαι”. καὶ Ἀπολλώνιος ἐνάτῳ “ἐδεήθησαν ὅπως αὐτοὺς εἰς Τάβας καταγάγωσι”. βαρύνεται δέ, ὡς Σάβαι, κύριον καὶ ἰαμβικόν. ἐκλήθη δὲ ἀπὸ Τάβου. ὁ δὲ Τάβος ἥρως. οἱ δέ φασι τὸν Κιβύραν καὶ Μαρσύαν ἀδελφοὺς τὸν μὲν κτίσαι Κιβύραν πόλιν, τὸν δὲ Τάβας, καὶ καλέσαι ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐπὶ πέτρας οἰκεῖσθαι· τάβαν γὰρ τὴν πέτραν Ἕλληνες ἑρμηνεύουσιν. ἔνιοι ἀπὸ Ταβηνοῦ Ἀργείου. ὁ πολίτης Ταβηνός [ὡς Γερηνός]. Ἡσίοδος “παρ´ ἱπποδάμοισι Γερηνοῖς”. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη πόλις Καρίας Τάβαι καὶ τρίτη τῆς Περαίας, ἣν Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν τῷ περὶ Συρίας ἑρμηνεύει ἀγαθήν.

Tabai, Tabae, Tabas, Tabay, ...+2 more">Tabai, Tabae, Tabas, Tabay, ...+2 more">Tabai, Tabae, Tabas, Tabay, ...+2 more">Tabai: a city in Lydia, about which the oracle says in response to the Pisidians, 'that the glorious city of Tabai be settled free'. And Apollonios in the ninth book: 'they asked that they bring them down to Tabai'. It has barytone accentuation, as in 'Sabai', a proper name and an iambic form. It was named after Tabos. Tabos was a hero. Others say that Kibyra and Marsyas were brothers, and that one founded the city Kibyra, the other Tabai, and named it from its being inhabited on a rock; for the Greeks interpret 'taban' as 'rock'. Some derive it from Tabenos the Argive. A citizen is a 'Tabenos' [as 'Gerenos']. Hesiod: 'among the horse-taming Gerenoi'. There is also another city in Karia, Tabai, and a third in Peraia, which Alexander in his On Syria interprets as 'good'.

Text Details

Entry	#1
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Edition ids	Meineke 597.6 · Billerbeck Τ1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-22
Word count	99
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀπολλώνιος (Apollonius)	FGrHist 740 F 9
Ἡσίοδος (Hesiod)	fr. 35 Merkelbach/West = fr. 33 Most
Ἀλέξανδρος (Alexander)	Περὶ Συρίας · FGrHist 273 F 71
Περὶ Συρίας (On Syria)	—

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Τάβαι	Tabai · place
Λυδία	Lydia · place
Πισίδες	Pisidians · people
Τάβαι	Tabai · place
Σάβαι	Sabae · place
Τάβος	Tabos · person
Τάβος	Tabos · person
Κίβυρα	Cibyra · place
Μαρσύας	Marsyas · person
Κίβυρα	Cibyra · place
Τάβαι	Tabai · place
Ταβηνός	Tabenos · people
Ἀργεῖος	Argive · people
Ταβηνός	Tabenos · people
Γερηνός	Gerenos · people
Γερηνοί	Gerenians · people
Καρία	Caria · place
Τάβαι	Tabai · place
Περαία	Peraea · place
Tabai in Lydia	place · city · Lydia · explicit · unresolved
Tabai in Caria	place · city · Caria · explicit · wikidata: Q2386213 · candidate
Tabai in the Peraia	place · city · Peraia · explicit · unresolved

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	It was named after Tabos; and Tabos was a hero.
Folk Etymology Narrative	Some say that Cybiras and Marsyas were brothers, one founded the city of Cybira and the other founded Tabai and named it from dwelling on a rock; for the Greeks interpret taban as 'rock'.
Eponym Person	Some derive it from Tabenos of Argos.
Unclear Metalinguistic	He interprets it as 'good'.

Links

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Page scans	vol4_274.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative AUTHOR NAME)... + ὡς αὐτός formula:4caae33810f40dfa	Translate as "X... as per X." Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES 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	εἰς + «X» (GREEK LETTER) formula:f06db8d92900ddc7	Translate as "ending in X" Domain: SPELLING & PROSODY Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an 'X'" 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 (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS 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	ἑρμηνεύεται gloss:53a0185fe8830489	interpreted Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
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
Gloss	κύριον τό gloss:80561c77c14cdb57	personal name (AI), literal meaning, proper name (as in τ' ὄνομα κύριον) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	παραλήγω (παραλήγουσα ἡ, παραληγόμενα τά) gloss:98ac2508e432827d	be next to the end (ἡ π. second last syllable: penult; τὰ π. ) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC 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 1.308

char LCS 163 (32.6%) · word LCS 33 (33.3%)

Stephanos

… ὁ χρησμός φησι πρὸς Πισίδας “ἄστυ Ταβῶν ἐρικυδὲς ἐλευθερὸν οἰκίζεσθαι”. καὶ Ἀπολλώνιος ἐνάτῳ “ἐδεήθησαν ὅπως αὐτοὺς εἰς Τάβας καταγάγωσι”. βαρύνεται δέ, ὡς Σάβαι, κύριον καὶ ἰαμβικόν. ἐκλήθη δὲ ἀπὸ Τάβου. ὁ δὲ Τάβος ἥρως. οἱ δέ φασι τὸν Κιβύραν καὶ Μαρσύαν ἀδελφοὺς τὸν μὲν κτίσαι Κιβύραν πόλιν, τὸν δὲ Τάβας, καὶ καλέσαι ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐπὶ πέτρας οἰκεῖσθαι· τάβαν γὰρ τὴν πέτραν Ἕλληνες ἑρμηνεύουσιν. ἔνιοι ἀπὸ Ταβηνοῦ Ἀργείου. ὁ πολίτης Ταβηνός [ὡς Γερηνός]. Ἡσίοδος “παρ´ ἱπποδάμοισι Γερηνοῖς”. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη πόλις Καρίας Τάβαι καὶ τρίτη τῆς Περαίας, ἣν Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν τῷ περὶ Συρίας ἑρμηνεύει ἀγαθήν.

Herodian

…. κέκληται δὲ ἀπὸ ἥρωος Ἄβα. Τάβαι πόλις Λυδίας, περὶ ὧν ὁ χρησμός φησι πρὸς Πισίδας »ἄστυ Ταβῶν ἐρικυδὲς ἐλεύθερον οἰκίζεσθαι«. καὶ Ἀπολλώνιος ἐνάτῳ »ἐδεήθησαν ὅπως αὐτοὺς εἰς Τάβας καταγάγωσι«. ἐκλήθη δὲ ἀπὸ Τάβου ἥρωος. οἱ δέ φασι τὸν Κιβύραν καὶ Μαρσύαν ἀδελφοὺς τὸν μὲν κτίσαι Κιβύραν πόλιν, τὸν δὲ Τάβας, καὶ καλέσαι ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐπὶ πέτρας οἰκεῖσθαι· τάβαν γὰρ τὴν πέτραν Ἕλληνες ἑρμηνεύουσιν. ἔνιοι ἀπὸ Ταβηνοῦ Ἀργείου. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη πόλις Καρίας Τάβαι. καὶ τρίτη τῆς Περαίας, ἣν Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν τῷ περὶ Συρίας ἑρμηνεύει ἀγαθήν. Σάβαι πόλις μεγάλη πλησίον τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης. Λάβαι πόλις Χαττηνίας. Πολύβιος τρισκαιδεκάτῳ. βλάβη. ὀξύνεται…