Τάμυνα - Stephanos Ethnika

Τάμυνα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Τάμυνα, πόλις Ἐρετρίας. Στράβων δεκάτῃ. καὶ πληθυντικῶς “εἰς τὰς Ταμύνας”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ταμυνεύς, καὶ θηλυκὸν Ταμυνηίς ἐξ αὐτοῦ. λέγεται καὶ Ταμυναῖος. οὕτω γὰρ ὁ Ζεὺς ἐν αὐτῇ τιμᾶται. Παυσανίας ιʹ περιηγήσεως.

Tamyna: a city in Eretria. Strabo, book 10. Also in the plural, 'eis tas Tamynas'. The ethnonym is 'Tamyneus', and the feminine from it is 'Tamyneis'. It is also called 'Tamynaios', for Zeus is honoured in it in this form. Pausanias, book 10 of his Periegesis.

Text Details

Entry	#14
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 600.6
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-22
Word count	31
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	10.1.10 (C 447,33)
Παυσανίας (Pausanias)	Περιήγησις

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Τάμυνα	Tamyna · place
Ἐρέτρια	Eretria · place
Τάμυνα	Tamyna · place
Ταμυνεύς	Tamynian · people
Ταμυνίς	Tamynian (feminine ethnic form) · people
Ταμυναῖος	Tamynian · people
Ζεύς	Zeus · deity
Τάμυνα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q11950863 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	For Zeus is thus honored in it (i.e., in this way / under this designation).

Links

Place links	Tamynae \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol4_280.jpg
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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 · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 4 occurrences
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
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	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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	τὸ 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
Formula	Χ (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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	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.

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.