Ὑρμίνη - Stephanos Ethnika

Ὑρμίνη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Ὑρμίνη, πόλις τῆς Ἤλιδος. “ὅσσον ἐφ´ Ὑρμίνη καὶ Μύρσινος ἐσχατόωσα”. Μενέλαος δὲ τετάρτῳ Θηβαϊκῶν Ὕρμιναν διὰ τοῦ « α » φησί. τὴν δ´ Ὑρμίνην Ἐχεφυλίδας φησὶ τὰς νῦν Ὁρμίνας· Ὁρμίνας δὲ καὶ τοὺς Ἐπειοὺς καλεῖσθαι. Ὅρμιναι δὲ δύο.

Hyrmine: a city in Elis. ‘As far as Hyrmine and Myrsinos on the border.’ Menelaos, book 4 in his Thebaika, gives ‘Hyrmina’, with an α. He says that Hyrmine is the Echephylidai, now called the Horminai, and that the Epeioi too are called Horminai. There are two Horminai.

AI translation — gpt-6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#46
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 652.12
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-26
Word count	37
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Μενέλαος (Menelaus)	Θηβαϊκά (Thebaica) · FGrHist 384 F 2
Θηβαϊκά (Thebaica (Theban Histories))	Θηβαϊκά (Thebaica) · FGrHist 384 F 2
Ἐχεφυλίδας (Echephylidas)	FGrHist 409 F 3

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ὑρμίνη	Hyrmine · place
Ἦλις	Elis · place
Ὑρμίνη	Hyrmine · place
Μύρσινος	Myrsinos · place
Ὑρμίνη	Hyrmine · place
Ὑρμίνη	Hyrmine · place
Ὄρμινα	Orminas/Ormina · place
Ὄρμινα	Orminas/Ormina · people
Ἐπειοί	Epeians · people
Ὄρμινα	Orminai/Ormina · place
Hyrmine in Elis	place · city · Elis · explicit · unresolved
Horminai, the Epeioi group/place	place · settlement or district · Elis · explicit · unresolved

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	Menelaus, in the fourth book of the Thebaica, says that the name is Ὑρμινα, written with alpha (rather than eta). This is a statement about the form/spelling of the name, not an explanation of its origin.
Unclear Metalinguistic	Echephylidas says that the present-day people called Hormina are the same as the people of Ὑρμίνη, and that the Epeians too are called Hormina. This connects the place-name and ethnonym through variant naming, but does not state an origin.
Unclear Metalinguistic	There are two places called Orminai. This is a clarification about the name's geographical referents, not an etymology.

Links

Place links	Hyrmine \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol4_410.jpg
Review	Open review page

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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 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	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
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.

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