Τύρας - Stephanos Ethnika

Τύρας OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

river

Τύρας, πόλις καὶ ποταμὸς ἐν τῷ Εὐξείνῳ πόντῳ. καὶ ἔδει παρὰ τὸν Τύραν Τυράτην εἶναι τὸ ἐθνικόν. ἔστι καὶ Τυρίτης ἀπὸ τοῦ Τύρις· ὁ δὲ πολυίστωρ τὸν ποταμὸν καὶ τὴν πόλιν Τύραν, τοὺς δὲ πολίτας Τυρανούς. ἐκαλεῖτο δ´ Ὀφιοῦσσα.

Tyras: Tyras, a city and river on the Euxine Sea. And the ethnonym ought to have been 'Tyrates' from Tyras. There is also 'Tyrites' from 'Tyris', but the Polyhistor the river and the city Tyras, and the citizens Tyranoi. It was also called Ophioussa.

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	#227
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 642.4
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-26
Word count	39

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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 DERIVED NOUN) + παρά + τό + Y (ETYMON) formula:e1b19e84652cc7be	Translate as "X is deriving/derives 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	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
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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.56

char LCS 36 (20.3%) · word LCS 8 (20.5%)

Stephanos

Τύρας, πόλις καὶ ποταμὸς ἐν τῷ Εὐξείνῳ πόντῳ. καὶ ἔδει παρὰ τὸν Τύραν Τυράτην εἶναι τὸ ἐθνικόν. ἔστι καὶ Τυρίτης ἀπὸ τοῦ Τύρις· ὁ δὲ πολυίστωρ τὸν ποταμὸν καὶ τὴν πόλιν Τύραν, τοὺς δὲ πολίτας Τυρανούς. ἐκαλεῖτο δ´ Ὀφιοῦσσα.

Herodian

…', μὴ ὄντα ὑποκοριστικὰ ἢ συναληλιμμένα ἢ νόμισμα δηλοῦντα βαρύνεται, Θήρας, Ἀθύρας ἐπίνειον καὶ ποταμὸς περὶ Βυζάντιον· Εὐφορίων «ὕδατα δινήεντος ἀμευσάμενος Ἀθύραο». ἔστι δὲ καὶ Σικελίας ποταμὸς Ἀθύρας, ὡς Νυμφόδωρος. Τύρας πόλις καὶ ποταμὸς ἐν τῷ Εὐξείνῳ πόντῳ, ὡς ὁ πολυίστωρ. λέγεται δὲ καὶ Τύρις. Κιβύρας ἀδελφὸς Μαρσύου. Ἄρας αὐτόχθων τις, ἀφ´ οὗ Ἀραντία Πελοποννήσου πόλις. Τάρας πόλις Ἰταλίας καὶ ποταμὸς ὁμώνυμος παρὰ θάλασσαν· ἀρσενικῶς δὲ κατ´ ἀναλογίαν. οὐδὲν γὰρ εἰς 'ρ…

Herodian 1.53

char LCS 21 (11.9%) · word LCS 5 (12.8%)

Stephanos

Τύρας, πόλις καὶ ποταμὸς ἐν τῷ Εὐξείνῳ πόντῳ. καὶ ἔδει παρὰ τὸν Τύραν Τυράτην εἶναι τὸ ἐθνικόν. ἔστι καὶ Τυρίτης ἀπὸ τοῦ Τύρις· ὁ δὲ πολυίστωρ τὸν ποταμὸν καὶ τὴν πόλιν Τύραν, τοὺς δὲ πολίτας Τυρανούς. ἐκαλεῖτο δ´ Ὀφιοῦσσα.

Herodian

…ντα καὶ Φοινικοῦντα καὶ Ἐρύκην καὶ Καμικόν Ἁλικύας τε καὶ Θέρμον καὶ Καμάριναν, ὡς καὶ ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ. οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ Ἀκράγαντος τοῦ Διὸς καὶ Ἀστερόπης τῆς Ὠκεανοῦ. ἔστι καὶ Θρᾴκης καὶ Εὐβοίας καὶ Κύπρου καὶ Αἰτωλίας. Πολύβιος δὲ τὸν ποταμὸν καὶ τὴν πόλιν ἀπὸ τῆς χώρας ὠνομάσθαι Ἀκράγης διὰ τὸ εὔγεων.