Τόμισα - Stephanos Ethnika

Τόμισα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Τόμισα, χωρίον διορίζον Καππαδοκίαν ἀπὸ τοῦ Ταύρου. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Τομισηνός τῷ τύπῳ τῆς χώρας καὶ Τομισεύς.

Tomisa: Tomisa, a place dividing Cappadocia from the Taurus. The ethnonym 'Tomisenos' by the form of the country, and 'Tomiseus'.

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	#152
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 628.12
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-24
Word count	16

Links

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form '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 (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	καί + X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + Y (nominative PROPER NOUN) formula:0af867b3dd6df580	Translate as "Y is also 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES 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 1.389

char LCS 43 (50.0%) · word LCS 7 (43.8%)

Stephanos

Τόμισα, χωρίον διορίζον Καππαδοκίαν ἀπὸ τοῦ Ταύρου. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Τομισηνός τῷ τύπῳ τῆς χώρας καὶ Τομισεύς.

Herodian

… 'γ' Πήγασα. Κύρβασα πόλις Καρίας. Δέδμασα πόλις Καρίας. Ἱέρασα ἢ Ἴρασα τόπος Λιβύης, εἰς ὃν μετήγαγον Βάττον οἱ Λίβυες, ὡς Ἡρόδοτος τετάρτῃ (c. 158). Κάνδασα φρούριον Καρίας. Πολύβιος ἑκκαιδεκάτῳ. Πλάρασα πόλις Καρίας. Τόμισα χωρίον διορίζον Καππαδοκίαν ἀπὸ τοῦ Ταύρου. Πιμώλισα φρούριον τῆς ἐντὸς Ἅλυος Ποντικῆς. Μονόγισα πόλις Καρίας. ἵδρυμα Δαιδάλου μετρῶν... γίσσα γὰρ τῇ Καρῶν φωνῇ λίθος ἑρμηνεύεται. καὶ νῦν τοὺς πλακώδεις καὶ μαλακώδεις λίθους γίσσα λέγουσιν. Τὰ εἰς 'τον' διβράχεα…