Τυρακῖναι - Stephanos Ethnika

Τυρακῖναι OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Τυρακῖναι, πόλις Σικελίας, μικρὰ μὲν εὐδαίμων δ´ ὅμως. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Τυρακιναῖος καὶ Τυρακιναία θηλυκόν. Τυρακὴν δὲ αὐτὴν Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν Εὐρώπῃ καλεῖ.

Tyrakinai: Tyrakinai, a city of Sicily, small but nevertheless prosperous. The ethnonym 'Tyrakinaios' and 'Tyrakinaia' feminine. But Alexander in Europe calls it Tyrake.

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	#228
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 642.9
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-26
Word count	21

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (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 · 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

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