Τάκομψος

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Τάκομψος, κώμη ἐν τοῖς ὁρίοις Αἰγυπτίων καὶ Αἰθιόπων πρὸς τῇ Φίλῃ νήσῳ, ὡς Ἀρισταγόρας ἐν Αἰγυπτιακῶν πρώτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Τακομψίτης, ὡς Κάνωβος Κανωβίτης, Πεντάσχοινος Πεντασχοινίτης.

Takompsos: a village on the borders of the Egyptians and Ethiopians, near the island of Phile, as per Aristagoras in book 1 of his Aigyptiaka. The ethnonym is 'Takompsites', as 'Kanobites' is from Kanobos, 'Pentaschoinites' from Pentaschoinos.

Text Details

Entry#8
Greek textmeineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source idMeineke 598.17
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-22
Word count25
AI translationgpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Ἀρισταγόρας (Aristagoras)Αἰγυπτιακά · FGrHist 608 F 2
Αἰγυπτιακά (Egyptian Matters / Egyptian History)Egyptian Matters · FGrHist 608 F 2
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΤάκομψοςTakomp(s)os · place
ΑἴγυπτοςEgyptians / Egypt · people
ΑἰθίοπεςEthiopians · people
ΦίληPhilae · place
ΤακομψίτηςTakompsite · people
ΚάνωβοςCanobus / Canopus · place
ΚανωβίτηςCanobite / inhabitant of Canopus · people
ΠεντάσχοινοςPentaskhoinos · place
ΠεντασχοινίτηςPentaskhoinite / inhabitant of Pentaskhoinos · people
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Morphological CompositionThe ethnic form is Takompsites, just as Kanobos gives Kanobites and Pentaschoinos gives Pentascho init es; the name is being grammatically formed into its ethnic adjective/demonym.
Unclear MetalinguisticTakompsos is a village on the borders of the Egyptians and Ethiopians, near the island of Philae, as Aristagoras says in Book 1 of Egyptian Matters. The entry locates the place but does not explain the origin of its name.

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Translation Guidance

KindRuleGuidanceDetection
FormulaX (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
FormulaX (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL)
formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb
Translate as "X, book Y"
Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
FormulaX (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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
FormulaX (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 · 2 scan rows · 4 occurrences
FormulaX (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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
FormulaX (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN)
formula:276bf314e3ad9973
Translate as "X, X"
Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
FormulaX (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH)
formula:1bb0974b95264dde
Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'"
Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
FormulaX (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE)
formula:0a6d211492d74a05
Translate as "a X of the Y"
Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
FormulaX (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
FormulaX... + πρός + Y (dative)
formula:1a524ea80fe79519
Translate as "X... near Y"
Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formulaτὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM)
formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3
Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'"
Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
FormulaΧ (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME)
formula:c22408ee90fd1a1e
Translate as "X, in book Y of his *Z*"
Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formulaὡς + 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
Formulaὡς + 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 · 2 occurrences
Glossἐθνικόν τό
gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a
ethnonym
Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Glossκώμη ἡ
gloss:e14972622087326b
village
Domain: SETTLEMENTS/STRUCTURES
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.227
char LCS 90 (59.2%) · word LCS 17 (68.0%)
Stephanos
Τάκομψος, κώμη ἐν τοῖς ὁρίοις Αἰγυπτίων καὶ Αἰθιόπων πρὸς τῇ Φίλῃ νήσῳ, ὡς Ἀρισταγόρας ἐν Αἰγυπτιακῶν πρώτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Τακομψίτης, ὡς Κάνωβος Κανωβίτης, Πεντάσχοινος Πεντασχοινίτης.
Herodian
…. ὠνόμασται δὲ ἀπὸ Γαληψοῦ τοῦ ἐκ Θάσου καὶ Τηλέφης. Αἰδηψός πόλις Εὐβοίας. Στράβων ἐνάτῳ «κεῖται δὲ κατ´ Αἰδηψὸν τῆς Εὐβοίας, ὅπου τὰ θερμὰ λουτρὰ Ἡρακλέους». Λαδεψός καὶ Τρανιψός ἔθνη Θυνῶν. Θεόπομπος ὀγδόῳ Ἑλληνικῶν. Τακομψός κώμη ἐν τοῖς ὁρίοις Αἰγυπτίων καὶ Αἰθιόπων πρὸς τῇ Φίλῃ νήσῳ, ὡς Ἀρισταγόρας ἐν Αἰγυπτιακῶν πρώτῳ. Τὰ εἰς 'ος' λήγοντα οὐδέτερα ὀνόματα ἀεὶ βαρύνεται, τεῖχος, βέλος, πάθος, πέλαγος, ὕψος, ὕφος, σκύφος, στῖφος, δίψος, νέφος βρέφος, λαῖφος, αἶσχος, δέλος, δέος, κλέος, μέγεθος, στέλεχος. αἱ δὲ μετοχαὶ οὐδέτεραι ὀξύνονται,…

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