Ὕκαρον - Stephanos Ethnika

Ὕκαρον OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

fortress

Ὕκαρον, φρούριον Σικελίας, ὡς Φίλιστος Σικελικῶν πρώτῳ. Ἀπολλόδωρος δ´ ἐν δευτέρῳ χρονικῶν πόλιν λέγει αὐτὴν τὰ Ὕκαρα μέμνηται τῆς λέξεως καὶ Θουκυδίδης. Ὕκαρα δὲ πόλισμά ἐστι τῆς Σικελίας. ἔνθεν φασὶ γενέσθαι καὶ Λαΐδα τὴν ἑταίραν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὑκαρεύς καὶ κτητικὸν Ὑκαρικός.

Hykaron: a fortress in Sicily, as per Philistos, in book 1 of his Sicilian Histories. Apollodoros, in book 2 of his Chronicles, calls it a city. Thucydides also mentions the expression 'ta Hykara'. Hykara is a town in Sicily. They say that Lais the courtesan also came from there. The ethnonym is 'Hykareus', and the possessive is 'Hykarikos'.

AI translation — gpt-5.6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#22
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 646.20
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-26
Word count	41
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Φίλιστος (Philistus)	Σικελικῶν · FGrHist 556 F 4
Σικελικά (Sicelica (History of Sicily))	Σικελικῶν · FGrHist 556 F 4
Ἀπολλόδωρος (Apollodorus)	Χρονικά · FGrHist 244 F 8
Χρονικά (Chronica (Chronicles))	Χρονικῶν · FGrHist 244 F 8
Θουκυδίδης (Thucydides)	6,62,3

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ὕκαρον	Hycara · place
Σικελία	Sicily · place
Ὕκαρα	Hycara · place
Λαΐς	Lais · person
Ὕκαρον	place · explicit · wikidata: Q728102 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	They say that the courtesan Lais also came from there (i.e., from Hykara).

Links

Place links	Hyccara \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol4_396.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 · 3 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 (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
Formula	X (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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (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
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 · 3 occurrences
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 · 2 scan rows · 3 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + 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
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:f22af8012162d222	*Translate as 'as per X, in book Y of his Z'* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + 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 · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	κτητικόν τό gloss:80c7f336a009c2c3	possessive Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	πόλισμα τό * gloss:9651cd1c383eacc4	town Domain: SETTLEMENTS/STRUCTURES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	φρούριον τό gloss:a6e2b628860e5a07	fortress Domain: SETTLEMENTS/STRUCTURES	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 1.385

char LCS 105 (46.5%) · word LCS 18 (43.9%)

Stephanos

Ὕκαρον, φρούριον Σικελίας, ὡς Φίλιστος Σικελικῶν πρώτῳ. Ἀπολλόδωρος δ´ ἐν δευτέρῳ χρονικῶν πόλιν λέγει αὐτὴν τὰ Ὕκαρα μέμνηται τῆς λέξεως καὶ Θουκυδίδης. Ὕκαρα δὲ πόλισμά ἐστι τῆς Σικελίας. ἔνθεν φασὶ γενέσθαι καὶ Λαΐδα τὴν ἑταίραν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὑκαρεύς καὶ κτητικὸν Ὑκαρικός.

Herodian

…ρα πόλις πρὸς τοὺς ὅρους τῶν Φρυγῶν καὶ Λυδῶν. Ἡρόδοτος ἑβδόμῃ (c. 30). Λάβαρα πόλις Καρίας. Ἀλέξανδρος δευτέρῳ περὶ Καρίας. Ζόαρα πόλις Περσική. ἔστι καὶ κώμη μεγάλη ἢ φρούριον ἐν Παλαιστίνῃ ἐπὶ τῇ Ἀσφαλτίτιδι θαλάσσῃ. Ὕκαρον φρούριον Σικελίας, ὡς Φίλιστος Σικελικῶν πρώτῳ. Ἀπολλόδωρος δ´ ἐν δευτέρῳ χρονικῶν πόλιν λέγει αὐτὴν τὰ Ὕκαρα. μέμνηται