Ὕπαιπα - Stephanos Ethnika

Ὕπαιπα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Ὕπαιπα, πόλις Λυδίας, κτισθεῖσα ὑπὸ τὸ παρακείμενον ὄρος, [ὑπὸ] τὸ Αἶπος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὑπαιπηνός. καλλίστας ἔχειν γυναῖκας τὴν πόλιν, δῶρον Ἀφροδίτης.

Hypaipa: a city in Lydia, built beneath the neighbouring mountain, Mount Aipos. The ethnonym is 'Hypaipenos'. The city has the most beautiful women, a gift of Aphrodite.

AI translation — gpt-5.6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#31
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 649.8
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-26
Word count	21
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.6-sol

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ὕπαιπα	Hypaepa · place
Λυδία	Lydia · place
Αἶπος	Aipos · place
Ὑπαιπηνός	Hypaepene (inhabitant of Hypaepa) · people
Ἀφροδίτη	Aphrodite · deity
Ὕπαιπα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q5957170 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	[The city was] founded beneath the neighboring mountain, beneath Mount Aipos. This describes the city’s location in relation to the mountain, but does not explicitly explain the formation of the name Ὕπαιπα.
Folk Etymology Narrative	The city is said to have the most beautiful women, a gift of Aphrodite. This is a mythic/aetiological characterization associated with the city, rather than a clear linguistic derivation of its name.

Links

Place links	Hypaepa \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol4_400.jpg
Review	Open review page

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 (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	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
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ὄρος ὁ gloss:184051ff413f789d	mountain, mount (X ὄρος = 'Mount X') Domain: TERRAIN/LANDMASSES	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.