Ἀγησσός - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ἀγησσός, πόλις Θρᾴκης, ὡς Θεόπομπος ἐν τεσσαρακοστῇ ἑβδόμῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἀγήσσιος, ὡς Ἀσσήσσιος Ταρτήσσιος, ὡς δειχθήσεται ἐν τῷ περὶ αὐτῶν στοιχείῳ. ἢ Ἀγησσίτης, ὡς Ὀδησσίτης διὰ τὸ ὁμοεθνές.

Agessos: a city in Thrace, as per Theopompos, book 47. The ethnonym is 'Agessios', as in 'Assessios' and 'Tartessios', as will be shown under their letter; or 'Agessites', as in 'Odessites', because they belong to the same people.

AI translation — gpt-5.6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#30
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 15.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-28
Word count	27
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Θεόπομπος (Theopompus)	FGrHist 115 F 218

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἀγησσός	Agessos · place
Θρᾴκη	Thrace · place
Ἀγήσσιος	Agessian · people
Ἀσήσσιος	Asessian · people
Ταρτήσσιος	Tartessian · people
Ἀγησσίτης	Agessite · people
Ὀδησσίτης	Odessite · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	The ethnic name is Agēssios, like Assēsios and Tartēssios, as will be demonstrated in the discussion concerning them.
Morphological Composition	Or Agēssitēs, like Odessitēs, on account of the common ethnic formation.

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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 · 2 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 · 1 occurrence
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	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 · 6 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 · 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
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 (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 · 3 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	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 1.210

char LCS 49 (31.6%) · word LCS 8 (28.6%)

Stephanos

Ἀγησσός, πόλις Θρᾴκης, ὡς Θεόπομπος ἐν τεσσαρακοστῇ ἑβδόμῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἀγήσσιος, ὡς Ἀσσήσσιος Ταρτήσσιος, ὡς δειχθήσεται ἐν τῷ περὶ αὐτῶν στοιχείῳ. ἢ Ἀγησσίτης, ὡς Ὀδησσίτης διὰ τὸ ὁμοεθνές.

Herodian

…ὲ θεῶν ἄλλος γε παρὲξ φράσσαιτό κεν αὐτοῦ. Ἐδεβησσός πόλις Λυκίας, Ἐρβησσός πόλις Σικελίας. Ὀρδησσός, Ὀδησσός πόλις ἐν πόντῳ πρὸς τῷ Σαλμυδησσῷ. Ἀπολλόδωρος δ´ ὄρος μέγα τὴν Ὀδησσόν φησιν. Σαλμυδησσός κόλπος τοῦ Πόντου. Ἀγησσός πόλις Θρᾴκης ὡς Θεόπομπος ἐν τεσσαρακοστῇ ἑβδόμῃ. Ἀκαλησσός πόλις Λυκίας, Ἀσσησσός πόλις Μιλησίας γῆς. Θεόπομπος